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Show WORM IS REMOVED - - FROM EYE OF BOY CHICAGO, Nov.. 24. Seren-year-old Edward Benringer," an orphan, was pre-' pre-' vented from becoming blind by an " . operation, said to" be the first of the kind ever performed in the United States, at .the City Holy Clinic hospital A worm which slowly -was eating its way througb the ball of the eye was removed. . The Benringer boy's home is on a truck farm near Nues, Mich. He had been in the habit of eating radishes and other truck lust as it came from the - garden and it is supposed one of the ; Tsiishes contained the bacilli of a tape-A tape-A worm, which in some manner lodged in ie eye. - |