AMAZING CURE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 28 November 1935, Page 12

AMAZING CURE

BLIND GIRL’S SIGHT RESTORED. A remarkable case of blindness was cured last month at the National Hospital in Queen Square, Blomsbury, London, by means of injections in the arm. A 20-year-old typist, Miss Elsie Cross, until a year ago had never been seriously ill. One morning as she was dressing she noticed a haze over her eyes. Rapidly the darkness grew; at the end of the day she was half blind. Next morning she could only just see a brilliant electric light held a few inches from her eyes, and in two days she was totally blind. For six mouths she went from one specialist to another. As a last resort one of them suggested she should go to the National Hospital. “There,” said the doctor who attended her, “we disregarded her eyes for the moment. Instead, we tickled the. soles of her feet. “Extending from the brain to the feet are nerve fibres we call pyramidal tracts. If there is nothing wrong with the nervous system the toes turn downwards as a result of tickling; Elsie Cross’ toes turned up. “Next we struck a tuning fork and rested it on her legs. She felt none of the vibrations. “We touched her all - over with cotton wool. Sensation was blunted. We filled test tubes with hot and cold water, put them on sensitive parts of her skin, pricked her with pins and needles —she felt nothing. , “As a final test we drew from the base of her spine some of the fluid which surrounds the brain, and is found in the spine as well. From this we found that the trouble was not in her eyes at all, but that the nerves between the brain and eyes were diseased. “Injections cured them, and in five weeks she could see perfectly well