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Doctor Who Makes The Blind See
Remarkably successful cures of blind
ness resulting from cataract have been
performed, by Colonel Henry Smith,
M.D., who is now in London, after ser-
vice in the Indian Army. During a
short visit to Toronto lie operated on
60 cases, with only one failure to re
store sight.
One of Dr. 'Smith 's patients had been
blind for three years, and great speci
alists in New York regarded her case
as hopeless, but after the skilful re
moval of the cataract she can now,
with the aid of glasses, "walk around
and see objects quite distinctly."
"Dr. Henry Smith," writes a medi
cal correspondent, "is well known for
his radical operation of removing the
entire lens of tho eye in which cataract
develops. "
"IIo has had unique opportunities in
India, where eye diseases arc rife, of
gaining skill in this operation, and has
there performed oyer 60,000 operations
for removal of cataract.
' ! Cataract is an opaque condition of
the lens, which gradually increases until
the patient- can barely distinguish light
from darkness. It 'mostly affects elderly
peoples but may occur sometimes in the
young. The only cure is removal of the
ions, which is a small double-convex
transparent little body in the front of
the eye that focuses images of objects
on the retina at the back of the eve.
"Several different operations are
performed for the cure of cataract.
Some surgeons break up the opaque
lens with a needle, many successive
operations being necessary. Others
suck out the contents with a suction
apparatus.
"Once the cataract is cured by Dr.
Henry Smith -'s method, it. can never re
turn, and the patient has tolerabiy
good vision for the remainder of life
by wearing glasses . which replace the
lost lens."
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