Case of a lady born blind, who received sight at an advanced age by the formation of an artificial pupil ... / [James Wardrop].

  • James Wardrop
Date:
1826
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Credit: Case of a lady born blind, who received sight at an advanced age by the formation of an artificial pupil ... / [James Wardrop]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    usual, and asked more questions about the objects surround- ing her, such as “ What is that? it is a soldier, she was answered ; “ and that, see ! see !” these were candles of va- rious colours at a tallow chandler's window. “ Who is that, that has passed us just now ?” it was a person on horseback : “ but what is that on the pavement, red ?” it was some ladies who wore red shawls. On going into the Park, she was asked what she saw particularly, or if she could guess what any of the objects were. “ Oh yes,” she replied, “ there is the sky, that is the grass ; yonder is water, and two white things which were two swans. On coming home along Piccadilly, the jewellers' shops seemed to surprise her much, and her expressions made those around her laugh heartily. From this period till the time of her leaving London on the 31st of March, being forty-two days after the operation, she continued almost daily to gain more information of the visible world, but she had yet much to learn. She had acquired a pretty accurate notion of colours and their different shades and names ; and when she came to pay me a farewell visit, she then wore a gown, the first of her own choice, with the light purple colour of which she seemed highly gratified, as well as with her cap, which was ornamented with red ribbons. She had not yet acquired any thing like an accurate knowledge of distance or of forms, and up to this period she continued to be very much confused with every object at which she looked. Neither was she yet able, without considerable difficulty and numerous fruitless trials, to direct her eye to an object; so that when she attempted to look at any thing, she turned her head in various directions, until her eye caught the object of which it was in search. She still entertained however the
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