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Show lie IN SUES FOyiSI SIGHT Sisters of the Holy Cross Hospital Hos-pital Association Is the Defendant. SAYS DOCTORS' DIRECTIONS WERE NOT CARRIED OUT One Eye Entirely Destroyed and He Is Nearly Blind in the Other. Judge Ritchie anti a. jury took tip the J35.O0O damago oult of Frnnk Gltzhofrcn against tho Slstors of the Holy Cross Hospital association. Wednesday. Tho suit Is a most Interesting one and Is helng Btubohnily contested. What Is Alleged. Gltzhoffen, who Is a young man of about 22 years, alleges that he entered the hospital hos-pital on July 25, 1S03, and that he was suffering suf-fering at the tlmo from a disease of the oyes. He was examined, he says, by Drs. Henry La Motto and T. G. Odell, who ordered or-dered that he be plaeed In charge of not less than two nurses and that his eyes be cleansed with an antiseptic wash hot more than twenty minutes apart. Otherwise, Other-wise, the physicians said, according to the complalnt.'he would lose his sight. It Is next alleged that tho hospital management man-agement did not carry out the directions of tho physicians and that, aa a result, Gltzhoffen's left eyo had to bo removed, whllo his right eye became so seriously Infected In-fected that he can scarcoly see. What Defense Alleges. The defense Is that Gltzhoffen p lost nlgnt Is the result of tho disease with which he wa suffering when ho entered tho hospital and a denial of the material allegations of the complaint. The hearing had only gotten fairly under un-der way when court adjourned for tho day and will be resumed this morning. |