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Show NEW INSTRUMENT j AIDS SIGHT OF i AGING EMPRESS' J , MADRID,-June 14. Former f ' Empress Eugenie of France is ( able to see much better than for i , years past, thanks to au opera- tion for cataract, performed since her arrival in Madrid, I where she is the guest of her i nephew, the duke of Alba. De-I De-I spite her 94 years, the former ! empress consented to undergo the operation, performed by Dr. Barraquer, a Barcelona oculist, who invented n instrument for I cataract removal. I j The frailty of Eugenie per-, mitted the use of only a local anaesthetic. The surgeon made j a slight incision in the cataract, applied cocaine, and then the j delicate instrument which acts on the suction principle, .was used. After six clays the obstruction ob-struction was drawn aside without with-out pain. When the bandages were removed Eugenie was able to read for the first time in many years. o o |