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The Blind made to see.-An interesting case of surgery, with a view to the bestowal of sight is mentioned in the Lexington (Ky.) In. telligcncer. It is that of a young man from Mississippi, about twenty -one, and blind from his birth. who came to that city few weeks ago. for the purpose of having an operation performed, in hope of attaining the power of vision. The operation was performed by Professor Dudley. of the Medical Depa -tment of the Pennsylvania University. and appears to have been completely successful-so far as human agency could at once impart to an adult. a new sense and capacity for its exer- else. Two weeks after the operation, the young man presented himself before the me- dical class, and easily distinguished the fea- lures of those who had attended him but, us was quite natural to person in his singular condition. nothing satisfactory could be ob- tained from him, in regard to the difference between those ideas which he had formerly received through the sense of touch, and those recently received through that ot vision.-- Tho intelligencer states that tho young. man was particularly pleased with the exercise of hts newly acquired sensc in walking tho streets, looking at tho houses ana trees and flowers, and mon and woniens