Sudden Sight, After a Lifetime of Blindness
With a simple operation, a man who had been blind since childhood miraculously regained his vision, Oliver Sacks writes. Then he had to learn to see a world he no longer knew.
"In fact, the number of cases of this kind over the last ten centuries known to us is not more than twenty." Sacks on a man who gains sight after a lifetime of blindness—and the terror of learning to see.