Evening star., 1922-12-17
Polish Woman Expert on Tour
Predicts End of Blindness

saturate a blind individuals mind
with fear They urge them to take
taxi instead Of walking a short dis
tance, and do many other similar
things which hinder the development
Of real independence.
! zone day there was a small oiiho
child about three years old CROSSING
the street near my Office said Dr.
Lipinska. citing q particular instance.
land a woman who was consulting
me cried out in terror. ] looked III
the direction she seemed to be look-
ing and could hear nothing. She cried
again. 1 found that this child was
quietly crossing the street win
plenty of time to reach the other sioe
before a coming automobile Wouid
reach that spot in the street. An at
tendant brought the child to my Or
fee at my patients frantic request
! and the latter attempted to admonlsh
the child to be more careful.
"T see by my ears said the child.
knew the automobile was coming
but l could tell by the sound that IL
was long way off and there was no
!, chance for me to be run over II l dlo
not wait. l had plenty of time 1t Is
jus: such foolish fears on the part OF
other folk which retard the full de-
velopment o: the blind"
Dr. Lipinska finds those who have
! harder to re-educate and require
very different methods. The way TO
prevent children being born blind she
says. is to make such marriage laws
that only men and women III good
physical condition shall be allowed
to enter the marital state. Blindness
in birth is a result of the parents Ills
and can only be prevented by their
leading normal healthy lives.
When in New York few weeks
ago. DR.. Lipinska met Helen Keller
and was delighted that she could un-
derstand everything that this Amerl-
can girl who has overcome the oo-
stacles of blindness and deafness SAID.
The doctor found Miss Keller's educa-
/ ton and present work novel and IN
teresting to her, and stated tha' after
journey to America was not in vain.
TAR. W. II. WILMER of Wash
l. ington. who is known inter-
nationally as an oculist. obtained
special permission for DR.. Lipinsha
to enter the United States. as
government immigration rules do
not allow blind aliens generally to
enter the country. DR.. Lipinska comes
as official delegate to study condi-
tions in American institutions for
the blind and represents the Oculists'
Society of her native city, Warsaw.
Poland: Gen. Balfourier's Associa-
ton for the Improvement Of Educa-
ton for the Blind in Paris: Capt.
Izaac's Union for Blind Soldiers, also
of Paris: the Society of Psychotherapy
of Paris. of which she has long been
an active member. and the Belgian
Ligue Braille of Brussels.
She is an author of numerous arti-
cles on blindness and methods of
treatment for it. She wrote book
which is now being translated into
English, Women Doctors Through
the Ages" She did not become threat
ened with blindness until she was
nineteen years old. yet did not let
this possibility interfere with her in
tentions to study as a doctor.
When twenty-one years old she lost
the sight of her left eye and for The
past ten years has been totally blind.
In spite of this obstacle. she receive
a degree, graduating with honor from
the famous Academy of Science IN
Paris She has worked in the re-edu-
cation Of the blind in Poland. France
Belgium. Finland and Englan1. The
greatest contribution which she has
give to science. aside from her long
wears of research and experiments, is
that given at the time when she fast
ed for forty days. for thirty of Whlch
she did not even take a sip of water,
in order to prove that it was possible
to keep human beings alive for that
period without internal food. This ex-
pertinent was invaluable. as it will
solve the problem Of delicate opera
tions which surgeons have fel' 1t
impossible to attempt previously. De-
cause of the need for supplying susie
nance This may prove the saving Oh
many lives in the future which would
otherwise have been lost.
DR.. Lipinska will lecture in the
United States on auto-suggestion.
prolonged sleep and the need for si-
lence in the curriculum Of human be-
inrs and will also lecture on her
methods of re-educating the piln"'
Among those who are sponsoring her
lectures in this country are DR.. Nicho-
las Murray Butler. Nine. 1gnace Pad
erewski, Prince Casimir Lubomlrski'
Ii Go lie lleleTl.