The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-11-19
HIS EYE TATTOOED.
From Pearly White to 2 Rich
Brown Hue.
a Modern Miracle Performed In Cin-
clnnati-Almost Painless Process.

How would you like tie color Of your
eyes changed! II tho present shade does
not suit you. there Is no need for you To
let 10 stay that color forever. You can
have it tattooed 10 the proper gradation OF
] black or brown, and, what IS more, you
need not go outside Of Cincinnati to have
! this done.
This remarkable operation has been
| gone through with by young man from
West Virginia within the last few days,
and IL IS said to be eminently successful by
all those who know OF IT, Iie still has his
eye in bandagos, and viii have for some
time u come, but the work is none the
less what it was meant Co be--a success.
Tho pupil of the eye has been tattOoeG,
just as IL it were the back of his hand, and
the operation was not SO painful, accord
ing TO the young man, as might be ex-
pected.
The history of tho case Is remarkable,
and it only leaked out few days ago,
though it Is said that this is not the first
time such an operation has been per-
formed. Mr.. Bristow is bright young
man, with smooth, handsome face and
quick, intelligent mind. He comes from
the capital OF the state, where he has many
friends, and his father is "a well known
business man. Some years ago the young
man, then bpt boy, was attacked with a
malignant .malady from which he recov-
cred only to find himself bereft Of his sight.
The case was peculiarly sad one, as the
boy was exceptionally bright and the idol
OF bis parents. He was brought to Cincin-
natl as soon as possible and placed in care
of DIR. Sattler, who was then connected in
business way with DR.. Ayres. The case
was worked over with even more than pro-
fessional zeal, and success at last crowned
the efforts of the painstaking physicians
Tho sight OF one eye was restored to the
young man, though not without great
trouble ana the bearing of "a great deal Of
suffering by the patient, who proved him
self n hero.
But though ono eye was saved, Ii was
at the expense OF tho other, and the sight
was lost forever to one OF his eyes. The
pupil turned a pearly white, and that was
all. IL did not affect the other so that it
must be taken out, but remained intact,
save that it had q pure white center in
place of tho soft brown color of the
good eye 1t took several years to do all
this, but tho result was eminently salts
factory to tho br've young fellow, who was
willing to do almost anything to secure
somo sight, no matter how small. And
when IL is remembered that he was brought
from absolute blindness to having one per-
fectly good eye and one bad one, 1t seems
little short of wonderful.
But DIR. Sattler was not satisfied even at
this, and, in order to make she cure more
complete and the loss of the sight less of
cross TO bear than ever, he suggested to the
young fellow that the bad eye be tattooed.
"Tattooed?" said Mr. Bristow in aston
ishment. "Why, can that be done?''
Very easily, was the reply, and SO q
week ago the operation took place. Young
Bristow came down from his homo aud
went TO the hospital, taaing up his resi-
dence there as he did several years before.
He was well cared for for u day or two, to
get him in condition physically, and then
a little cocaine was put in his white eye, q
tattooing necule, little ink, such as Is
used by sailors in this work, absolutely
pure and antiseptic, prepared and rubbed
on the needle point, a few quick prickings,
u gazing at by the "artst," to see what
the effect was going to be, little more
pricking and-prestol the decd was done,
and the white eye was gone, never to re-
turn. Tho brown eye is well matched, and
there will be no pain attached to the opera
tion, as the eye will heal easily and with
out trouble.
The c0loring matter sinks into tho tis-
sues of tho pupil and stays there, not af-
fecting any other portion of the eye, and
in u few weeks Nlr. Bristow will be wei,
and about again, and not man In 1000
will ever know one of his eyes Is without
sight. Such arc the wonderful advances
made in modern medicine. The investi- |
gator naturally asks, "What next?"-Cin- |
cinnati Commercial Tribune