Talk:Recovery from blindness

not done
Please don't post articles that you know are 'not done'. Get the article to a point that it is encyclopedic, and informative before you actually post it. CB Droege 19:03, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Redness
What the heck is redness O____o ? -- Esurnir 02:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I was wondering that, too. -Tacubus 11:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * And result, the redness has been cast away from the article, I photoshoped it. -- Esurnir 06:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Biblical Reference
Mark 8:22–26 ..... really? Reading the passage, it seems like something much more naive than describing a visual system anomoly :) -- 202.89.175.57 (talk) 10:58, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Reisen
Reisen later did experiments with kittens wearing frosted goggels to allow them to see diffused light so that the retina did not degenerate and got the same results. Source: "Beginning Psychology" by Malcolm Hardy and Steve Heyes. IBSN 0297775952 I can't find this information online. Anyone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.238.128 (talk) 13:04, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Dates and ages
I have some difficulty with the years and ages in the part about Michael May. He is described as being born in 1954 and regaining partial vision in 2000, at age 46 (that seems mathematically correct and in accordance to the page on him). But in the next sentence it says that he had a stem cell transplant in 2001, at age 43, after 40 years of blindness. That can't be right. I have a suspicion that the intended meaning is "at age 46, after 43 years of blindness", as that is at least plausible, date-wise. EwgB (talk) 17:28, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Virgil and Shirl
Are Virgil and Shirl Jennings the same person? I've seen conflicting information about this. The article for Shirl states he was chronicled in "To See and Not See" but the name Virgil is used throughout. Olinga (talk) 12:22, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

John Howard Griffin
The article is missing the example of John Howard Griffin, who is arguably the most famous person to have gained vision after being blind. He was neurologically injured as a WWII soldier in 1945, which caused him to develop 20/200 blurred vision. His sight crumbled into total darkness by 1947. In 1953, he was diagnosed with malaria, became increasingly paralyzed, and began to take a low dosage of strychnine to stimulate his motor control. By 1956, he was cured of malaria and stopped taking strychnine. While walking through his parents house on January 9th, 1957, he regained his sight. A doctor told him this is because the strychnine unclogged various blood vessels throughout his nervous system. He wrote a book detailing his blindness and recovery titled Scattered Shadows.

He would become world famous in 1960, when he began publishing his book Black Like Me in Sepia magazine. In 1961, the entire book was published.

https://www.americanheritage.com/man-who-changed-his-skin https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/scattered-shadows https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00050&kw=john%20howard%20griffin 2600:1012:B1B9:401F:F8A7:B04D:7178:FA65 (talk) 22:42, 3 July 2022 (UTC)


 * I have found a scholarly article about the case published by John Hopkins University Press.
 * https://www.proquest.com/docview/1994439656 2600:1012:B1B9:401F:F8A7:B04D:7178:FA65 (talk) 23:05, 3 July 2022 (UTC)