WONDERFUL RECOVERY.
SIGHT, SPEECH AND HEARING:
' MELBOU'RNEyJuIy IT. William Ilton,. aged 70, and for 26 yf-ars an inmate o*f the Austin Hospital for incurables, has caused a. sensation m the hospital" by* recovering his eight, speech,; and hearing. Twenty-six years ago Ilton -was, when admitted to the hospital, deaf, dumb, blind, and paralysed. Last October he caused' great excitement/ by recovering his sight, but on Saturday last he electrified the medical and nursing staffs by regaining . his speech .and hearing •Ilton is stili paralysed, and his mind is , a complete, blank as to events of the past 28 years, bui, he can discuss happenings' of the year 1885 m a manner which is surprising. Ilton's remarkable case has already attracted '•- the attention of medical men,- who, speak of it as a modern miracle. •'••
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13131, 18 July 1913, Page 4
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133WONDERFUL RECOVERY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13131, 18 July 1913, Page 4
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