Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-07-19
py 4 BLIND SURGEON.
,cAre OPERATIONS DONE WITH O' NERVE AND SKILL.

Cooke, Though sishtless' Has an EH- nsly sspsitiye Touch Has Gained nos From Five Institutions-Two ..s D.s.us Diassuat Cases Successful.
 vhar Dr. James R. Cooke of Boston
 ;" v months old, both eyes were ruined NSs laundering doctor, who administer ,yrone medicine. Since then he gu gu, baen totally blind. He is now 32 nas S0 of age, and he is consulted in diff yea ,t cases by the most eminent of the Ou.s 1,lar physicians of Boston. He has sSs saSssarned very recently two very deli p'la la and difficult surgical operations, va's 5 in both cases the patients are doing well ,.-.a l.. ,..a a...I.a ..aob 1 and he tells the color of goods in .Ss' .Sa same way, singular as it may ap- sasr 'ns A lady who had eight or ten sam pies pTs of dress goods, each about 8 inches pa tl~ora and of different colors, handed ssa sSa,n to Dr. Cooke the other day, and sa .n ot once told accurately the color and aSan ~ the shade of color of each and [selsoted the samples of best quality. whon handed several national bank and ,overnment currency bills, he at once ss,d the denomination of each and the eolor whether green or black. He tells The M complexion of person by touching ,he m skin. It is difficult to believe that a Kind man could do this, but he is seen to do it, and accurately too
 | Dr Cooke went among Buffalo Bills Indians the other day and designated their character by their voices, spoken in tbe Indian dialect. He has three di- thomas from colleges of this and foreign countries and four certificates of com mondation from institutions where he has taken special courses of study. He went through course of study under tbe famous Weir Mitchell.
 Before Dr. Cooke was 21 years of age bs was employed by large tobacco bouse to select the raw tobacco for tbem, He never failed to get tke best ouality and the most desirable color all by the touch. From this source he earned over 50, 900, which paid his ex- Denses at a university in Tennessee, where he stood at the head of his class. From the Tennessee university he en- tered medical school, where he was Ito the fore" all through the class. He has taken special studies i'll five other institutions, part of them in Europe. To attain all that this remarkable man has accomplished in the higher classics aud professional studies of the colleges required large and firmly knit brain, perseverance and self reliance to an un- usual degree
 The two women patients that he operated upon recently are both doing well. h one case a large tumor was re- moved. The other was a still more diff cult and delicate case. When lifting out the tumor, Dr. Cooke found he had 24 foreeps holding veins and arteries He tied blood vessels quickly and removed the foreeps, He takes up and ties severed arteries in difficult cases more rapidly than any of the clear seeing surgeons. He has no idea of the appearance of the moon and planets and stars nor of the sun, and night and day are all the same to him, except that the stiffness of the night does not escape his attention. He sa hard worker and unfagging student. He has a typewriter to whom he die tates. His wife writes medical prescrip- tlons in Latin. -Hartford Times