The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-08-07
WAS BLIND FOR
MANY YEARS
Prominent TuTfman Claims Eye
sight Has Been Restored.
TREATMENT IS NOT PAINFUL
Class Cups Kept en- Base Of Skull With
Air Current for -Four
Minutes.

Chicago. Aug. 7.--John Condor, the we'll
known turfman and owner or the Harlem
race-track. who has been totally blind for
years. says he now is able to see a little.
Upon the authority OF the worlds most
famous oculists Condor had been pro-
nounced hopelessly blind.
DIR. Pagenstecher the famous German
oculist who attended Queen Victoria. pro-
nounced sentence on his sight
Mr.. Condon, he said. II can do moth
ing for you. No treatment yet invented
wise ave quacks II YOU ever sec again
IL will be because some methods OF treas Z
Ing the optic nerve as yet unknown shall
have been discovered"
THE METHOD FOUND.
This method Mr.. Condor believes has
been found In an invention by DIR. Gary,
or baltimore, son OF Judge Gary OF
II have had Il applications OF this won
derful new invention" he said today.
In my sight Is so marked that l cannot
be mistaken. Objects that before / Wis
tied pr Gary ! could not see a tall. i can
Two hours about my home or down
town would make my eyes. as heavy as
II ! had been sitting IN a three,day, card
remedy. They would simple ache with
WEAKNESS couple OF hours after i had
hnlshed long nights sleep.
"Dr Gary has stopped this entirely He
has cured 80 or 60 per cent OF all the cases
he has treated and believe Just as surely
as am talking to you that he will give
me back my eyesight"
HOW 1T is DONE.
The Invention which is restoring John
Condon's sight IS still very much OF an
This is the way Condor describes the
apparatus and DR.. Gary's method OF APP
plying Il; COMPRISED air is the key
There is no such thing as medicine or
drugs connected with It, First, there
Is a small quarter-horse-powe battery
which generates about 220 volts OF cleo
tricity. Electricity is not a part OF the
treatfnet; II Is. as i understand it, simply
the .sr5 motive power, .u -.
chine which congresses air. Attached TO
this are two long rubber tubes 10 the ends
OF which are fastened two glass cups
the face and touch the eyeballs. That's
all the apparatus there IS.
Now for the treatment itself. The
against the head at the base OF the brain.
Then the current Is turned on.
There are two apentures In the sur
them cir under considerable pressure is
forced against the head: Through the
other air Is drawn raw as In The glass y kept sS
back and forth with movement some
thing like an indescribably quick. delicate
massage.
TREATMENT NOT PAINFUL.
The flesh seems to culver under the
currents OF air. The sensation Is not
at all painful.
The glass cups are kept on the base
OF the skull. with the air current on for
four minutes. Then the cups are fitted
over the eyeballs and the same opera
tion performed on them. This sensa-
ton Is most peculiar. but the movement
te so delicate that It is not at all pain
THE eyeball feels as II IL were being
lightly pressed in one side and drawn out
on ths other whieh: as ,hrIn matter ,,t;n,;.s -
and then the treatment is voer That
once a day. Is the wonderful invention
that is bringing back my sight
What is the philosophy OF II? Well.
as nearly as l can understand II, the
application on the back OF the head acts
as direct stimulant on the blood ves-
sells that supply the optic nerves. Con-
sequently their circulation Is benefited.
Then comes the application upon the
eyeball. which acts directly upon the optic
nerve.
'Tt produces a sort OF friction, as un-
derstand It, on the nerve much further
back than any other treatment that has
ever been tired. II the nerve Is not entirely
dead, II there Is q spark OF life still left In
II, the friction-whfch IL really more like
massage-stends 90 dispose OF the atrophy
and restore i to It's normal condition. ,,,
and placed myself under DR.. Gary's treat
menf as soon as I reached Baltimore. He
gave me N applications-one each day for
three weeks-and. as I said. the improve
ment in my condition Is wonderful.