Medicine: Blind Leading the Blind

Ralph Cross, who is blind, was faced with an unusual problem: his Seeing Eye dog was going blind, too. Ethel, a German shepherd, had been Cross's faithful guide for seven years. Six months ago cataracts dimmed Ethel's eyes; she began bumping into things, and Cross could no longer trust her in Los Angeles' heavy traffic.

When the Los Angeles Examiner ran a story about it, readers wrote in recalling that a Los Angeles eye surgeon, Dr. H. George Blasdel, had removed cataracts from his own cocker spaniel. Dr. Blasdel agreed to operate on Ethel.

Last week Ethel was back at Cross's side; when...

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