THE DEAF HEAR

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 528, 29 June 1915, Page 2

THE DEAF HEAR

— : * . — THE BLIND SEE. Two of the British soldiers recently; sent home by Germany as totally disabled" from further military- service made a sudden and simultaneous recovery while patients 'at the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Millbank.. One of them was Lance-corporal Fowkes, of the 18th Hussars. He was injured at Mbns and rendered blind, and the German surgeons regarded his case as hopeless. But at Millbank he received special X-ray treatment, with the result that lie regained his sight. Almost immediately • afterwards the second soldier, who had been rendered dumb by the shock of ..... high explosive, was heard to utter a sharp exclamation. He had had his speech restored by a shock caused.* by putting his hand accidentally on a warm-water pipe which was unusually hot.

A 'Daily Chronicle' representative learned that there was nothin.; very unusual, from a medical point of view, m either of these twoi cases, as m each instance the disturbance of faculty was not organic but only functional.