In Moscow a brilliant young Jewish woman doctor, Eugenia Smercowich, performs medical miracles by making the blind see without operation. A Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent wrote a short item on her work, which appeared in Jewish newspapers all over the world. Now friends of the blind on two continents turn to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency offices in New York for the address of the Moscow doctor.
In New York a middle-aged Jewish business man appeared at the J. T. A. office and told the cable editor he is going blind rapidly and asked for the address of Dr. Smercowich. He is ready to liquidate his little business and spend his life savings on a trip to Moscow in search of a cure, he said.
From Buenos Aires came a letter in quaintly-worded English on the stationery of the River Plate Supply Company, citing the item on the work of Dr. Smercowich, which had appeared in a Yiddish paper of that country, and asking for the address of the doctor.
“A good friend of us,” the letter states, “has recently lost the sight and is at present absolutely a blind man. His familiars having seen an information about Dr. E. Smercowich’s wonderful cures want to know her address with a view to approach her.” The letter is signed by Jose Caleroth, director of the company.
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