Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-07-22 | Page 35 | Boy Hopes to Restore Sight To the Blind

BOY MOPES HOPES TO RESTORE SIGHT TO THE BLIND Wonder Worker Coming to America for His Greatest Test By Dy B NEA Set Service LO LONDON DON July A 21 21 A year old year l old boy is coming to America In Inthe inthe the tho fall Call to help make malte the blind see He Is Theodore Aus Ames Austrian Austrian trian scientist who has been as- as astoundinG astounding as astounding Europe with his eye transplantations For several years now Koppanyi has been working at nt the Biological Biological cal station of ot tho the Academy ot of Sciences at Vienna transplanting the good eyes of or fishes tOads t ads and mice to similar animals which were born blind or had been blinded by opened up wonderful vistas of or I I Koppanyi wanted canted to do ons as to experiment with animals only one ona degree from front the man man s If It he could restore sIght to monkeys then It was almost a certainty the same miracle could be pel formed for tor men muon But In time the frightful after war ar poverty ot of Vienna I has found It Im- Im Impo impossible im impossible po possible to get et the necessity y ani- ani animals animals ani animals mals But then came caroa an offer from a Chicago hospital and now the tho boy scientist is looking forward ard to time the chance of a lifetime I A friend of mme mine recently had hadan hadan hadan an opportunity to talk taUt with Kop Kop- KoppanYI Kop in Vienna He sent in his 1113 cal caid d ant anc a II beardless youth came Into the time room May MIlY I see Dr Koppanyi 7 the th asked My name Is he said Mid smilingly No No doubt but It must be bo your father tather vi whom whom I have mao ae a e an nn ap- ap appointment appointment the astonished A told the youth i Not ot at all aU I think I t am the person you wish to seeThe see sec The Tho famous rese researcher was this of barely 21 I ha havo hae e been experimenting for tor quite a II timo time now upon blinded fishes trots frogs and IlZ lizards he lie said It was kno known n by naturalists that certain of these creatures hen ohen blind changed their color light shades shaded into darker ones My experiment was oas to transplant the good eyes of oC similar creatures to the blinded ones I wanted to see seo hether the tho filaments of or the time optical optical optical cal nerves nerses would themselves I to tin tb transplanted eyes and mot most I Important whether they function again and give elvo sight Tho Time animals once more changed color coler this time timo from darker darken to lighter shades They once more began to hunt their own oon food rood They responded to various arlous known ell well light tests My experiment had bad been a success TRY MONKEYS NEXT T My net nemt step was as an advance In the scale of oC animal life I e e e with Ith rats mice and rabbits then I wanted to try ant ant- animals ani animals mals nials highest In the tho scale ant and chich al ate aie e n nearest arest to es I needed monkeys eys but I couldn t get them them for lack of money I hope to experiment on monkeys In work in Chicago It If my restored stored sight sighs Is r re- re to tle last and monkeys there nih 1111 be bl b SUpreme step of all all- to try to restore sIght to a 1 mart man who has been blinded The Idea he be to transplant time the a ora ofa monkey or sheep e ee e or I 1 expects to consult with leading surgeons of ot America