Blindness: a cultural history
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The History of Blindness
People have long obsessed over the elusive idea of a cure for blindness. What ideas have people put forward in the past? It ranges from everything which we would consider horrific to the present where we think, gosh, how amazing. The other thing that has changed and treatment is some blindness has been seen as a psychological event. But actually the eyes themselves as an organ work, they're fine.
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