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Consulting the planets, Astrologer Mahant Raghvir Dass, high priest of Delhi's Hanuman (Monkey God) temple, made a direful prediction: "The 13 months after May 5, 1955, will be inauspicious for marriages." The news had Delhi state in a marital dither last week. Unmarried thousands hurried to get hitched before the full moon in the sign of Vrischika...
Front row (left to right): Charles P. Abbott of New Orleans, La. and Thayer Middle David S. Albertson of Newton, dass, and Dudley; Walter A. Baker of Columbia, Ky. and Thayer South; John Larbor of Philadelphia and Matthews North Marshall L. Berkman of Pittsburgh, Pa, and Wigglesworth; Thomas O. Bernheim of New York, N.Y. and Wigglesworth; Charles A. Birbara of Worcester, Mass, and Straus North...
Dust floated thickly in the air of the canvas tent that was Dr. Dass's operating theater in Darbhanga last week. Amid a raucous babble of several hundred patients, squatting on their haunches to await their turns at one of the makeshift operating tables, sweating coolies carried off postoperative patients at the rate of one a minute. As each new patient was placed on the table, an assistant washed the clouded eye with a mercury solution and applied a few drops of anesthetic. Then, while another assistant held a flashlight, the surgeon slipped his knife into the patient...
Miracle Enough. Using this rapid technique, Dr. Dass officiates at an average of 15 eye clinics throughout India every year. Free to the patients, the clinics are paid for by local institutions and public-spirited citizens. At the end of two weeks' care in the tent-hospitals, his patients get a pair of thick eyeglasses to replace their natural lenses, and are sent home. Each patient also gets a questionnaire to fill out and send in later for the doctor's records, but few bother...
...These people are illiterate," said Dr. Dass, as he prepared to go home and rest over the weekend for his next clinic. "If they can have enough sight to go about their work, it is miracle enough for them. That is all I try to give them...