sting twenty-four hours. When the nares were
plugged blood escaped freely from the eyes. A cone-shaped bit of
sponge, saturated with ferrous sulphate, was passed into each anterior
naris, and another piece of sponge, similarly medicated, into either
posterior naris. The patient had been taking various preparations of
potassium, and it was thought that his blood contained a deficiency of
fibrin. Upon removal of the nasal plugs a catarrhal inflammation
developed which lasted a long time and was attended with considerable
purulent discharge."

Late Restoration of Sight.--There are some marvelous cases on record in
which, after many years of blindness, the surgeon has been able, by
operation, to restore the sight. McKeown gives the history of a blind
fiddler of sixty-three, who, when one and a half years old, had lost
the sight of both eyes after an attack of small-pox. Iridectomy was
performed, and after over sixty years of total blindness his sight was
restored; color-perception was good. Berncastle mentions a case of
extraction of double cataract and double iridectomy for occluded
pupils, which, after thirty years of blindness, resulted in the
recovery of good sight. The patient was a blind beggar of Sydney.

To those interested in this subject, Jauffret has a most interesting
description of a man by the name of Garin, who was born blind, who
talked at eight or nine months, showed great intelligence, and who was
educated at a blind asylum. At the age of twenty-four he entered the
hospital of Forlenze, to be operated upon by that famous oculist. Garin
had never seen, but could distinguish night or darkness by one eye
only, and recognized orange and red when placed close to that eye. He
could tell at once the sex and age of a person approximately by the
voice and tread, and formed his conclusions more rapidly in regard to
females than males. Forlenze diagnosed cataract, and, in the presence
of a distinguished gathering, operated with the happiest result. The
description that follows, which is quoted by Fournier and is readily
accessible to any one, is well worth reading, as it contains an account
of the first sensations of light, objects, distance, etc., and minor
analogous thoughts, of an educated and matured mind experiencing its
first sensations of sight.

Hansell and Clark say that the perplexities of learning to see after
twenty-six years of blindness from congenital disease, as described by
a patient of Franke, re