SENSES RESTORED

• After an operation, specialists told Mrs Mary Lyons of Chester, West Virginia, that she would never be able to speak again. Four years later, terrified by a tightrope walker at a circus, the 32-year-old screamed and thereafter was able to talk. [AP] NY Times, 18 July 1927. • A stone thrown up by a horse’s hoof in 1897 blinded Stephen McCormack in his right eye. Thirty-three years later, Mr McCormack, by that time manager of the Griffith Fruit Company in Sydney, Australia, was exercising with a medicine ball when a companion accidentally poked a finger in his blind eye. He developed an excruciating headache, and suddenly his sight returned. [AP] NY Times, 9 July 1930. • When her house in Canaan, Connecticut, was struck by lightning in 1911, Mrs…

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