Medicine: To See & Be Seen

Eleven-year-old Linda Brown of Whittier, Calif, made TV screens across the U.S. for a few minutes last week, and for a good, heart-warming reason. Virtually blind from infancy, because of ulcer scars on her eyeballs (probably the result of overstrong silver nitrate being dropped in her eyes), Linda is making a remarkable recovery.

Linda's parents had taken her to more than a score of doctors and spent thousands of hard-earned dollars (her father works in a rubber factory) after they learned that her right eye could only distinguish between light & dark, and her...

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