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Show mm - CHILD'S SIGHT RESTORED. Chicago Blind Girl Made to See By Means of the X Rays. Chicago, uct. C Harriet Heilbuth, a vcars old, and for two years blind and a paralytic, has had her sight and the use of her limbs restored through the agency of the X-rays. Two years ago the child, while play-in play-in jr. fell from a porch to the sidewalk, a distance of sixteen feet, strl-.ing on her head. The fall left her totally blind, and with her right side para-k para-k lyzed. A few days ago the .X-rays were J applied by Professor W. C. Tuchs. and revealed a tumor the size of an exs pressing on the brain. The skull was trephined directly over the cyst as shown in the skiagraph, and the tumor removed. The child was able to move her limbs on recovering consciousness, and is now gradually recovering her eight. |