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Show USE OF HIS EYES. Cuban Physician Relieves Blindness by Use of X-Rays. A fow months ngo Uio world was startled by tho suggestion of an optimistic op-timistic oculist that tho blind might be mado to sco by means of tho X-rays. X-rays. Now It appears that theso san-gutno san-gutno hopes have been, nt any rato in part, fulfilled by Dr. Astudlllo of Havana. Tho man who has been cured was originally n resident of Madrid, and wns suddenly stricken blind twclvo years ago. Eventually ho went to Cuba, where ho camo across Dr. Astudlllo, As-tudlllo, an oculist, who invited htm to his house- In order to sco It anything any-thing could bo dono In his caso. After treatment ho beenmo able to differentiate between blnck and white In tho daylight, and gradually to boo and dcscrlho machinery of tho apparatus, appara-tus, ns well as count tho flashes of Incandescent In-candescent lamps In tho physician's Btudy. ing that U nt such n tlmo, with a line of linttlo ship on her beam ends, clean jH paintwork was of paramount Impor- HHl tnnro their condition could not bo a H serious H |