The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-14
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OUR KNOW LEDGE BOX.
A Remarkable Case.

EDITORS CONSTITUTION: On a certain street
in the eastern part of Atlanta there resides a man
(wlose name am asked to withhold from the pub
lic) who is strangely and sngulary affected. The
party in question is twenty-five years OF age five
feet ten inches high; weighs 100 poun Is; we'll
formed, and is II fine specimen of physical manhood:
but he is afflicted in peculiar and heretofore
heardof manner. One of his eyes Is dark blue in
color, the other eye IS light gray In the day
time-that is, from sunrise to sunscthc cannot sec
anything out of he blue eye but see dstint tly
and well with the gray eye; and from sunset to sun
rise he cannot see anything with the gray one but
can see well with the llue one. lis hearing is sim
ilnrly Affected lie hears only on the blind side;
thus he can hear with one car during the dry time
and with the other ear during the night Thisdoiect
or nfliction was not discovered or known To his
parents or himself during his bOyhold, ana was only
discovered month ago when he met with an acct
Gent by fail, which cut his c}e)rOW aud rendered
baidhec necessary over the gray eye. when he
WIS Mortified to ind that he was blind hu sent Tor u
doctor who examined tic blue csc, Tut could not
discover anything wrong with II, bat said that 1t
might be Il partial paralysis Of the optic nerve,
caused ny the shock of the fail, etc, and that II
would likely come all light sure enough, IL did
come all right ut suudown, and the patient thought
the doctor an expert uctllsl. But when morning
came be was as blind as II bat, and scared out OF
his wits lie sent for the doctor, who came aean
and treated the eye, went home consulted his
books about diseases Of the eye, but found
nothing to fit the OF his patient,
and retained agnin to examine the
eye. BY the time the second visit wa paid the sun
had set, ana the blue eve was all right. The pa
tent could SEQ without trouble. The doctor con
Cudcd thDt sunlight was too strong for that eye and
advised that uulil the recovered from the
supposed shock ne hould wear a baudngc over it,
which lie applied, ond then examined the gray eye,
finding the cut healed when 10, Gnd behold the
poor pat NJ could not SOC with that eye, although
il looked all right. The doctor was puzzle he put
his patient to bed directing him 10 remain there
until he called n"Xt morning. lie sat W all night,
reading from various authors about diseases Of the
eye and called early in the morning. when the
gray eye was reported "all right "as Weil rs ever "
etc. but the blue eye sighileSs lie called again
late the evening" a1d, finding the blue eye hi ght,
brilliant aud all tight, but the
gray eye blind, he concluded TINT
the case was a novel one-scb rs was never heard
Ofbciofe and that e would watch II closely, which
hc has been doing now for three weeks until he Is
perfectly satisfied that the sight alcinaes that is.
that his patient can see with one eve during the
daytime, and the other ut night. While studying
the case the doctor made tic discovery as 10 the
hearing which is equally rs stran rs the sight.
thus this man can hear OF one side aud 90 IN the
other alternately, and never knew Of his anliction
until within the past three weeks.