Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1915 — Restored Sight Brings Joy to Neighbor Editor. [ARTICLE]

Restored Sight Brings Joy to Neighbor Editor.

Editor Huff, of The Monon News, has been a victim of eye trouble for many years and only recently underwent an operation that holds promise of restoring the sight of one eye and he speaks of the operation in the following article: “The senioy member of the News firm has been groping about in darkness for the past two years on acfcount of an opacity caused by an ulcer. Recently Dr. FYank A. Morrisson, the eminent eye specialist of Indianapolis, performed an operation on the right and remaining eye known-as irridectomy, by which an artificial pupil was made in the iris. The operation was entirely satisfactory and gives promise of affording permanent relief. While convalescing from the operation the senior has found great delight in viewing the landscape o’er and seeing things that have been obscured for several years. It is hoped that the defective vision due to nearsightedness will be measurably overcome by use of the proper lens. The readers of the News will pardon this personal reference to one of the firm, but the transition from darkness to light is so pronounced, that we cannot resist telling it to those who have been familiar with our forlorn condition. Our hat would be doffed for the president of the United States, because he is the head of the greatest nation on earth, but with no less meaning would it be removed for a man whose skill has given us something with which we would not part for all the gold of Ophir. We have been in the hands of the best eye specialists at frequent intervals for many years, but it has remained for Dr. Morrison to give us a new lease on life, for the destruction of sight means the loss of much joy.”