Blind Doctor

On his way to a patient, one day in 1914, Dr. James Thomas Clack, country doctor of Wadley, Ala. (pop. 527), saw swirling red spots before his eyes. When he got to his call, he found he could not even read his thermometer. Realizing that he was losing his sight, he groped his way home, decided that retinal hemorrhages were ending his career.

But his patients did not agree. Neither did his wife. On his next call she went with him, examined the patient's symptoms as he diagnosed them. When a wound needed stitching, Mrs. Clack went at it like a neat housewife at a torn shirt. The doctor ran his fingers over the finished job, pronounced: "I couldn't have done better myself."

Last week, the Clacks went to Manhattan to appear on a radio program. Said Mrs. Clack: "I told him he mustn't ask me to drain abscesses on children. I couldn't stand seeing them suffer." Then one day the Clacks were called to treat a baby with an abscess "as big as a teacup." That case changed her mind, "because after I helped him the baby didn't suffer any more."

Blind Dr. Clack has been president of the Randolph County Medical Society, is now a director of the Bank of Wadley, chairman of Southern Union College's board of trustees. In & around Wadley are more than 1,500 people born under the care of Dr. Clack and his seeing helpmeet.

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