Letters to a Friend 



Your Doctor says, "The aqueous humor 

 may be restored/' How? By nature or by art? 



The position of my wound 

 will be seen in this figure. 



The eye is pierced just where 

 the cornea meets the sclerotic 

 coating. I do not know the depth of the wound 

 or its exact direction. Sight was completely 

 gone from the injured eye for the first few days, 

 and my physician said it would be ever gone, 

 but I was surprised to find that on the fourth 

 or fifth day I could see a little with it. Sight 

 continued to increase for a few days, but for 

 the last three weeks it has not perceptibly in 

 creased or diminished. 



I called in a Dr. Parvin lately, said to be 

 a very skillful oculist and of large experience 

 both here and in Europe. He said that he 

 thought the iris permanently injured; that the 

 crystalline lens was not injured ; that, of course, 

 my two eyes would not work together; and 

 that on the whole my chances of distinct vision 

 were not good. But the bare possibility of any- 

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