Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-08-11
HER BEAUTY IS RESTORED
English Woman to Whom Sight Was
Returned by Knife, Was Surprised
at Size and Color Of the Human
Face.

Phlladelphia.--An operation per-
formed only few times by the great
est eye specialists Of the world was
successfully completed in hospital
clinic before the senior class OF the
Medico- Chirurgical college by DIR. l..
Webster Fox, who occupies the chair
of opthalmology in the college.
BY the use of six needles, Indian
ink, and a vegetable dye the doctor
succeeded in tattooing the perfect
semblance of an eye on young girls
blind eyeball, which was covered by
five-cent piece.
The girl asked DR.. Fox to put q
glass eye in place of the diseased It's
sues, which made her face repulsive
to look at. The doctor, upon examina-
ton, found that the growth over the
corner was so strong that the delicate
operation that came in his mind could
be performed with a chance of sue
cess.
Cocaine was inserted to destroy
whatever sensibility remained, but no
anaesthetic was administered to the
patient, who did not appear to suffer
any pain while the operation was go
ing on.
The students saw the skillful hand
of the doctor guiding the tattooing
needles produce the semblance of an
eye with the skill and patience of
! trained artist on a surface that had
been blank white.
India ink was used for the pupil
For the iris a vegetable dye which
had been carefully experimental with
was employed, and the brown color
of the other and healthy iris in the
girls other eye was duplicated.
AS DR.. Fox dropped his last needle
and turned to his class he was greeted
with enthusiastic applause of the
students.
The operation, DIR. Fox told his
class. can never become a common
one, as 1t is seldom that the eyeball
of a blind person is in condition to
| permit tattooing.
Blind from birth and now SO, Miss
Annie Hubbard of Maidstone England,
| has just obtained her sight Hers Is
a remarkable case. Born in 1873, Miss
Hubbard was first taken to the Maid
stone hospital at the age of three
months and discharged as hopeless. I"
/ At AZ she was taken to London and
operated upon several times, but I'M
/ successfully.
Sightless, she returned home and
/ remained there about Ave years, final
| ly leaving again to enter st. Georges
Blind school, Southwark.
In 1901 Miss Hubbard returned
home again until three weeks ago,
when, acting on the advice OF her
| parents, she visited the Royal Kent
Ophthalmic hospitals last resort.
Here woman who had entered the
hospital seeing nothing descended the
hospital steps with all the wonders of
men and things suddenly unfolded to
her sight
81 live in dream" said Miss Hub
bard, land my only fear Is that /
shall awake some morning and find
that / cannot really see, after all. for
| my luck seems much too good to last.
How do | see things? Well, they are
very much as had imagined them,
]. only much larger and of q lighter
color. The first thing / saw in my
life saw when the bandage was re-
moved from my eye and I beheld my
nurses face.
II was surprised. The face seemed
SO large and pale. / had always Inn.
4 agined faces were much smaller and
that human flesh was always deep In
| In color. But when left the hospital
ward and, for the first time, walked
unassisted down fight of stairs and
so out into the street, realized that
/ was wrong, for all the people
seemed very large, and appeared to
have very pale faces and hands
II cannot find words to describe
my first impressions of shop windows
and street crowds"