Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1912 — INITIALS IN BABY’S EYE [ARTICLE]

INITIALS IN BABY’S EYE

First Letters of Names Chosen Before Birth Appear on Retina. Philadelphia.—Physicians here are attempting to explain the phenomena of certain lettering observed on the retina of the eyes of two-year-old John Dugan of. this city. Mirrored in his eyes are two distinct letters, each a quarter of an inch high. They are the initials of the name chosen by the boy’s parents before he was born. That name was John Dugan, the . name the boy now bears. In the middle of John's right eye is the print of a graceful “J,” while in the left'eye is set the initial “D."