received sight by the formation of an artificial pupil. 533 
show her his watch, concerning which she expressed much 
curiosity, and she looked at it a considerable time, holding it 
close to her eye. She was asked what she saw, and she said 
there was a dark and a bright side ; she pointed to the hour 
of 12 , and smiled. Her brother asked her if she saw any 
thing more ? she replied, “ Yes,” and pointed to the hour 
of 6, and to the hands of the watch. She then looked at the 
chain and seals, and observed that one of the seals was bright, 
which was the case, being a solid piece of rock crystal. The 
following day I asked her to look again at the watch, which 
she refused to do, saying, that the light was offensive to her 
eye, and that she felt very stupid ; meaning that she was 
much confused by the visible world thus for the first time 
opened to her. On the third day she observed the doors on 
the opposite side of the street, and asked if they were red, 
but they were in fact of an oak colour. In the evening she 
looked at her brother’s face, and said that she saw his nose ; 
he asked her to touch it, which she did ; he then slipped a 
handkerchief over his face, and asked her to look again, 
when she playfully pulled it off, and asked, “ What is 
that ? ” 
On the sixth day, she told us that she saw better than she 
had done on any preceding day ; “ but I cannot tell what I 
do see; I am quite stupid.” She seemed indeed bewildered 
from not being able to combine the knowledge acquired by 
the senses of touch and sight, and felt disappointed in not 
having the power of distinguishing at once by her eye, objects 
which she could so readily distinguish from one another by 
feeling them. 
On the seventh day she took notice of the mistress of the 
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