IOC CHILDREN BORN BLIND RESTORED TO SIGHT. 



gree of inflammation, and as the former cataract was fluid, 



there was every reason to believe that couching would in this 



instance be most efficacious. 



Effectsof this The operation gave pain, and the light was so distressing 



operation. ^ Q j^g e ^ e> t j )at t j ie y K ^ b were closed as soon as it was over, 



and he was put to bed. The consequent inflammation was 

 not severe, but as soon as the fluid cataract, which had been 

 diffused through the aqueous humour, was absorbed, the 

 capsule of the lens was found to be opaque, and the sight 

 consequently imperfect. The eyes were not examined with 

 respect to their vision till the 13th of October, during which 

 period the boy remained quiet in the hospital. On that day 

 the upper part of the pupil of the left eye had in some mea- 

 sure recovered its natural state, and had become transparent, 

 but the cicatrix in the cornea was more extensively opaque 

 than before. The light now was not distressing to either 

 eye, and when strong, he could readily discern a white, red, 

 or yellow colour, particularly when bright and shining. 

 The sun and other objects did not now seem to touch his 

 eyes as before, they appeared to be at a short distance 

 from him. The eye, which had been couched, had the most 

 distinct vision of the two, but in both it was imperfect. 

 The distance at which he saw best was five inches. 



When the object was of a bright colour, and illuminated 

 by a strong light, he could make out that it was fiat and 

 broad ; and when one corner of a square substance was 

 pointed out to him, he saw it, and could find out the other, 

 which was at the end of the same side, but could not do this 

 under less favourable circumstances. When the four cor- 

 ners of a white card were pointed out, and he had examined 

 them, he seemed to know them, but when the opposite sur- 

 face of the same card, which was yellow, was placed before 

 him, he could noeteli whether it had corners or not, so that 

 he had not acquired any correct knowledge of them, since 

 he eould not apply it. to the next coloured surface, whose 

 form was exactly the same, with that, trie outline of which 

 thee^e had just been taught to trace. » 



rhoy C.AflE (1. John Salter, seven years of age, was admitted 



bom blind. iniQ st Gem ,, e ' s n 0S pital on the 1st of October, 1 S06', un- 

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