Eureka Reporter | 1904-09-09 | Page 5 | When the Blind See

WHEN THE BLIND SEE first sensations bather those of fear than joy prof latta of glasgow tells ot a min who having suffered from cata bract from his birth recovered his tight at the age of 30 the patient before the operation was unable to distinguish objects though he could tell daytime from night and could locate a light for about ten days after the operation the patient ap feared dazed and could not realize that he was seeing says prof latta the size of ever thing in the seemed very much exaggerated and on that account he had very great dif faculty in interpreting what saw the first thing he actually per was the face of the bouse sur geon at first be did not know what it was but when the doctor asked bin to look down the sense of hearing guided his eye straight to the point whence the sound came and thence recalling what he knew from having felt his own face he realized that this must be a mouth and that he must be looking at a face he was entirely ignorant of color but learned to distinguish hues very quickly As he looked out of a high window he felt as it he could touch the ground with a stick he did not retain his faculty of moving easily about in the dark before he could guide fearlessly through a ward but now says the physician he has lost all that feeling of confidence and when his eyes are shut he is afraid to move and Is impelled to open them to ascer tain where he Is going