The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-14
SIGHT GIVEN TO THE BLIND
YOUNG WOMAN WHO NOW SEES
WITH A GRATED EYE.
A Wonderful and Delicate Operation
Performed by Philadelphia Sur
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A Wonderful and Delicate Operation
Performed by Philadelphia Sur
geons. Entirely Successful.
81 have never seen my mother or
my sisters" exclaimed young wo-
man who had been blind from child
hood. 4 have never seen the beau
tiful world, the flowers, or anything.
Oh, for one sight of the things about
met
No wonder that such a pathetic
plea aroused the deepest interest
among surgeons in Philadelphia
hospital They held consultation
in her behalf One OF her eyes had
been removed, it was so bad; in the
other the cornea, that transparent
film which covers the eye like the
crystal of a watch, had become
opaque-all the result of disease in
her infancy. 1t was decided that if
this cloudy crystal could be slit open
and the Opaque substance removed
there was a chance that the young
woman could see again.
1t was a delicate operation, one
in which a cut the one-hundredth
part of an inch too deep would re-
suit in destroying the slight chance
there was of restoring to the suffer-
ing woman her sight. In operating
it would be necessary to make so
large a cut in the diseased cOrnea
that similar piece from the eye of
some other person must be grated
in to take it's place. To secure this
piece for grating was the first diff
Guilty to be overcome.
One day a young woman was
brought to the hospital, the sight of
one eye having been destroyed by an
accident. His eye was beyond mend
ing, but a piece of the cornea was
available for use in the delicate op-
Grafton which the surgeons were so
anxious to try; and perhaps the
young fellow may have found his
distress somewhat easier to bear
since through his misfortune a kin
dred soul in deepest trouble might
obtain great JOY. His consent was
cheeTfully given, and the doctors got
busy.
The cOrnea Of the young woman's
eye was cat open and a large part
of it, piece nearly a quarter of an
inch long and One-eighth Of an inch
wide, was removed. The young
mans eye had previously been sub
jected to the knife, and a part Of
the cornea corresponding to that
taken from the young woman's eye
cut out This piece from the young
mans eye was quickly put into place
on the fresh wound, bandages were
applied to the girls eyes and the
most interesting part Of the expert
ment began. They had to wait for
nearly a week before the bandage
could be removed. and during this
time one may imagine the suspense
under which the girl labored.
Would the pain of the operation be
repaid with sight? Or would it all
be for merely another dis
appointment?
The doctors stood around her on
that Hateful day as one of their num-
Der removed the bandage. The girl
sat UP and stared about her. Sud
cenly she trembled and put a hand
to her mended eye Then she re-
moved it after a pause and looked
about her. Looked is the word, for
she saw. She actually saw
The operation was entirely sue
cessful, and there is no doubt, say
those in charge of the case, that the
young woman. who is less than 80
years old, will have fair sight with
this eye on which the cornea of a
mans is grated.