Medicine: First Sight

Forty-eight years ago a baby was born blind in Montgomery, Ala. She grew up, married a man named Wagoner, bore a son whom she could touch but never see. Lately, ill, she was taken to the charity hospital at Colfax, La. The doctors told her they thought they might, even now, operate and make her see.

Last week, bandages were removed and Mrs. Wagoner did see. Her first remarks are not only a human document, but illustrate that the consequences of such operations may be as important to psychology as to personal happiness....

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