The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23

She didn't know what it was, but moment
later when another car passed the child
noticed it and spoke of it again. DR.. Jen-
kins tested the girl half dozen times
on the way home, always on passing cars
and every time one passed she knew it
and spoke of it,
The child was kept very quiet all day
Thursday, but Thursday eve ming she was
taken out for short walk. Nothing was
said to her about trying to see, but every
time she passed a corner where there was
an electric arc light, she called attention
to it. She told her sister. who was with
her, that she could see lights and she placed
them easily by pointing with her finger.
These things left no doubt about the child
having genuine vision, slight as it was
On Friday night the little girl WAS taken
for sail on ferryhoat. She was taken
on the upper deck, and every time a large
boat passed the ferryboat she spoke of
shadow passing. She never failed to call
attention to passing craft when they were
large boats. Small boats she did not OBJ
serve.
Later i'll the evening she spoke OF seeing
flashes Of light with her left eye. Up to
this time all she had been able to discern
was with her right eye. The child Is now
being closely watched and everything is
being done to prevent her becoming too
excited. Her joy at being able to discern
things was very touching, according to
DR.. Jenkins and Mr.. Hammer, and her
parents and sister are so excited over tho
possibility of her recovering her eyesight,
even in part, that they can talk Of nothing
else.
When DR.. jenkins and MIR. Hammer were
asked yesterday about the case they gave
THE Sun this statement of it:
I'VE wish, on the side of mercy, to dis
count any results We have obtained for
this treatment, which is new and has never
been tried before. At the same time we
think where results even small as these
are. have been achieved they ought to be
known to the world The treatment may
prove in the case OF this girl to be cure
for blindness, and it may not. At any
rate We do not want to raise hopes in the
minds of the blind that cure for their
affection has been discovered.
we claim nothing, save that this little
girl, who was totally blind, has had flashes
Of vision and has been able to discern lights
and moving objects as the result of the
stimulation of radium, used in conjunction
with the X-ray.
IF Lille Spitznadel continues to improve
we will probably not have to treat her
again. II che does not go ahead. We will
experiment further with her along the
same lines. There is in possession Of Mr..
Hammer at present radium Of 800, 600 radio
activity. This will be used on the child
il she is treated again. The most powerful
used in the first experiment had radio
activity of 1000 This most powerful
radium is now being used in cancer case.
but can be obtained for the child at any
time.
an using the radium on this child every
care was exercised. Some months ago,
by merely putting his face close to tin
box which had contained radium MIR.
Hammer partly blinded himself for weeks
The radium imparts radio activity TO every
thing around 1t and too great care cannot be
taken in using it. In the hands of tho
ignorant it is very dangerous. Prof. Currie
has said that at times he has been unable
to go near his Instruments for hours after
using radium because Of the activity inn
parted by it to the very clothing that he
wore,
"We do not want this child disturbed at
the present critical point in her treatment,
and we hope our wishes will be respected"