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Show I BLIND MAN RECOVERS SIGHT Piece of Cornea Is Ingrafted on One Eye Taken to Window, Describes View and Darkness Returns. Paris. A pathetic story was told this week of a patient In a hospital who could see once, but has been blind for many years and had recently recovered re-covered his sight only to lose it again. A piece of cornea was ingrafted on one eye and the patient kept under observation four days with his eyes bandaged. ' Then he was taken to a window and the bandage was removed. remov-ed. He gave a cry of joy, for his sight" had been restored. In transports of joy he described the color of the trees and told of the reaIi7ion of his life's dream to see again the beautiful things of nature. The view was only permitted for a moment. Two days later he was again led to the window for another sight of the waving trees, but when the bandage was removed slowly he was unable to see. The bit of grafted cornea had ceased to be a living thing. The operation had failed just when it seemed about to succeed. |