Sight and Hearing Miraculously Restored
Dr. H. D. Chapin, a Cleveland physician who lost his sight seven years ago in a trip across the Syrian deserts, and whose eyes specialists in Europe would not undertake to treat, was treated by Dr. Arnold Knapp of New York City, who cut the outer veiling of the eye, put back the epithelial coat, a part of the conjunctiva, to get to the cornea. A slit was made down to the vitreous fluid, and then, with the eye held so that none of the fluid could escape, a superfluous part of the iris, which caused the blindness, was cut away. This certainly was an achievement of great skill. The very next day comes another despatch stating that a man who had been deaf for years had his hearing restored by a stroke of lightning near-by.