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Charts of Blind NativesCase 1: Maupassant, Guy deSource: B.C. in hand from Steinbrecher. Same in Gauquelin Vol. 6/558French author of vivid and brutal short stories that made him popular to his readers.

Writing with a terse, biting and impersonal style, he was richly dramatic in effect.

Maupassant's novels include "A Life, Pierre and Jean" and "Bel Ami."

Emile Zola described him as one of the happiest, and one of the unhappiest, men in the

world. In the 1870s he was a happy, penniless civil servant enjoying girls, funloving friends

and boating on the Seine. Maupassant was a broadshouldered, stocky man, with wiry

chestnut hair and regular features.

His sexual appetite was prodigious; inevitably he contracted syphilis, possibly in 1874. By1878 his eyesight was badly affected; he was subject to fits of melancholia and violentmigraines. Maupassant refused to acknowledge his syphilis and blamed his symptoms on

everything from overwork to the humid air of Normandy. In spite of his denial, he

attempted suicide twice.

On New Year's day in 1892 he visited his mother in Nice. She was shocked by his

appearance and begged him on her knees to not return to Canned but stay and rest. He

refused and returned to his cottage where his valet bled him and gave him chamomile tea.

In the morning he attempted to cut his throat with a paper knife, fearing that he was going

mad from the illness he so vehemently denied. On January 7th, he was taken to a luxuriousmental institution near Paris. His male servant was allowed to accompany him, but no

women visitors were allowed. Sex continued to obsess him during his final 18 months. In

his madness he became paranoid, accusing Francois of stealing his money. He would howl

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like a dog, and lick the walls of his room. Aware of when his attacks were coming on, he

would ask for a strait jacket. In late June, after a violent convulsion, he fell into a coma and

died of insanity from syphilis on 7/07/1893.

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Case 2: Plateau, JosephSource: Gauquelin Vol 2/3528

Belgian scientist, a physicist and author, inventor of Stroboscopic method for the study of

vibratory motion. He was an anatomy professor for the University of Ghent and was doing

research on the principle of vision and its effect upon simulated movement. In 1843, he losthis sight, but continued his research with others.In 1883 he was responsible for the inventionof the Phenakisticope, a primitive apparatus that produced moving pictures from a series of

drawings. Plateau could be considered the inventor of animation.Plateau died 9/15/1883, Ghent, Belgium.

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Case 3: Blind 3073Source: BJA, 5/1925

British sight impaired female who was myopic from childhood. At the age of 30, she lost thesight in her right eye due to detachment of the retina. Her left eye showed incipientcataract.

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Case 4: Blind 3529Source: BJA, 11/1924British female who lost her eyesight due to illness.She was hospitalized with an illness fromMay to September in 1902. She lost the sight in her left eye and developed problems withher right eye in April 1903. After an operation failed in July 1903, she permanently lost hersight.

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Case 5: Blind 5742Source: BJA, 4/1925Note: Kindly verify chart calculations for this Indian birthEast Indian male blinded due to fever and eye soreness at nine months. He lost his eyesight

in July 1924.

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Case 6: Amy GrantSource: Stephen Przybylowski quotes B.C.Eye Problem: See end of paraAmerican country singer, well known in Christian music circles as she put out gospel

albums for a decade before crossing over to popular success with the 1991 platinum effort,

"Heart in Motion." As a gospel singer, she featured words of joy over smileyface melodiessuch as her LP "House of Love," released August 1994.

The youngest of four kids of a prominent Nashville cancer specialist and his wife, Amy

grew up wanting to have a family, live on a farm and play guitar and sing. With a natural

talent, she had her first record contract at 15.

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In 1982 she married Gary Chapman, also known in the Christian music genre. They had

three kids, Matthew, Millie and Sarah. Their marriage seemed heavenmade. Grant had

already recorded Chapman's song "Father's Eyes" when they met at a party in 1979. When

they wed, it was at the time that Grant's breakthrough Christian album "Age to Age" was

scaling the charts and Chapman often accompanied Grant on tours. It was sorry news when

rumors of a rift began to circulate in the '90s and their friends hoped that they would work

through it but the couple announced on 12/30/1998 that they had come to the end of their 16

year marriage. In the fall of 1999 she started seeing Vince Gill, another awardwinning

country singer, appearing with him at his annual charity golf tournament in Oklahoma

City. They married 3/10/2000, 4:30 PM in Nashville. Besides her three children, (one boy

and two girls,) he has a teen daughter by his first marriage.

On 6/12/1995, during a routine eye exam, she learned that she had a detached retina in herright eye. She cancelled 17 concerts and had eye surgery three days later to repair and saveher vision.Grant had a baby girl on 3/12/2001, her fourth child and the first with Vince Gill.

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Case 7: Borgatti, GiuseppeSource: B.C. in hand from Steinbrecher (3:00 PM Rome time)Italian tenor opera singer and teacher, noted for his renditions of Wagner. He made a debut

at Castelfranco Veneto in 1893. In 1913, in the middle of a performance at La Scala, hesuddenly went blind and never recovered his sight.Borgatti died 10/18/1950, Milan, Italy.

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Case 8: Delius FrederickSource: Leslie Russell in "Brief Biographies."

English composer whose works reflect the influence and color of the places in which he

lived, England, the American mountains and forests, the Atlantic ocean. He subtitled an

orchestral nocturne "Paris, The Song of a Great City," 1899. Traveling extensively while

young, he studied music at Leipzig Conservatory and finally settled in France. After

working eight years in Paris and a marriage, he moved with his wife to GrezsurLoin.An onset of illness in 1922 led to paralysis and blindness; Delius continued to compose withhelp from Eric Fenby. In England for a music festival, he was made Companion of Honorby King George V in 1929.

Died 6/10/1934, Fontainebleau, France.

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Case 9: Daumier, HonoreSource: Gauquelin Vol. 4/269

In 1877 he was diagnosed Blind.French artist, lithographer, caricaturist and painter who wasfamed for his biting satire. He was imprisoned once for six months in 1832 after drawing a

cartoon that mocked King Louis Philippe. Daumier produced about 4,000 lithographs and

some 200 paintings. He attempted to paint but lacking a formal artistic education, acceptedhis career of daily drawing.

Born the son of a struggling poet whose day jobs were glazier and picture framer, Daumier

missed out on a traditional art education. At 19 he apprenticed for a few months with a

lithographer. Shortly after he caught on as a caricaturist and courtroom artists with two

magazines.

His greatgreatgrandsons still embellish daily editorial pages and the Daumier estate still

holds the patent on "Jules Feiffer."

He did not receive major recognition until after his death in Valmondois, France on

2/11/1879.

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Case 10: Cassatt, Mary StevensonSource: LMR quotes her dad's family record given in an article in Vogue 2/15/l954.Biography: Nancy Mowll Mathews, "Mary Cassatt, A Life," Villard, 1994.

Became Blind in 1910American artist of the Impressionist school, famous for warm and affectionate motherand

child studies done in a bright and original manner. A master of the tender touch, her

portrayals of gentle kisses are serene and voluptuous.

In 1866, at 21, Cassatt fled her wellbred and affluent Pennsylvania family to paint and study

painting in Paris. A stipend from her parents only enhanced her determination to focus

exclusively on painting. She traveled the French countryside, painting peasants and local

people, rejecting the fashionable trends in painting and disregarding the tyranny of the Paris

Salon. After some taste of success, along with a measure of criticism, Cassatt returned to

Pennsylvania to live. Finding no satisfaction in her homeland, she returned to Europe, this

time to Italy, where her career and her reputation were established.

A wealthy spinster, her life was focused on art. Biographers conclude that the closest she

came to a lasting romance was her friendship with Degas, who had an influence on her

painting. Nonetheless, she loved children, and often used her brother's children as models.

An invalid in her later years, she was almost blind after 1910. She died 6/14/1926, Le

MesnielTheribus, France.

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Case 11: ArlettySource: B.C. in hand from Cadran 9/95. (3:00 AM Paris time)1964 Medical Diagonsis Became Progressively BlindFrench actress. She began work as a factory worker and ended as a legend of the French

cinema, first entering film history with her role in the classic "Hotel Du Nord." Her dad

died in an accident in 1916 and she had to go to work though she preferred going into Paris to

popular cafes. She was noticed there and became a model in 1918 then a chorus girl, taking

the single name "Arletty." A popular film player, she refused to work in German cinema but

was accused of collaboration because she had a German lover during the occupation. Work

dried up and she did not make a major film until 1949, "Portrait D'un Assassin."

She never married or had kids. Her vision progressively failed after 1964. She published herautobiography at 89, "I Am As I Am."

Arletty died 7/23/1992, Paris.

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Case 12: Medical: Diabetes 10587Source: Erin Sullivan quotes case in MH Ext 10/1980American diabetic female who contracted diabetes at the young age of seven and became

totally blind by age 24.

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Case 13: John MiltonSource: Stephen Erlewine quotes Aubrey's Minutes of the Life of Mr. John Milton," asfound in "Milton's Complete Poems," edited by F.A. Patterson, "Born on the 9th ofDecember, half an hour after six in the morning." Aubrey's "Brief Lives" gives "Between sixand seven in the morning," in MNN.Peter Levi, ""Eden Renewed: The Public and Private Life of John Milton," St. Martin'sPress.

British writer and poet who is best know for his "Paradise Lost," 1667. His work is generally

regarded as surpassed only by Shakespeare.

He was the son of a scrivener, one of six kids of whom three lived. He was a beautiful child

with a good education who continued on to Cambridge where he lived so chaste a life that

he was given the nickname of "lady." He lived at home from 16321638 when his mom died.

As a gentleman, he traveled for a year.Puritanical and serious, he married 17yearold Mary in early 1643. She left him one month

later but returned in 1644. They had four kids, the first born in July 1646. One of the boys

died and after the fourth birth in May 1652, Mary died.

A tutor and writer, Milton was generally beset by money problems. He married his second

wife on 11/22/1656 and was widowed a second time when she died in childbirth 15 months

later. He married his third and last wife in February 1663; a young sensible girl, Elizabeth

Minshull, who made his last years comfortable.

Milton became more radical in his views as he aged, becoming the master of invective.Losing his sight from his mid30s, probably from retinal detachment, by MarchApril 1652 he

was wholly blind and worked through secretaries. He adapted well to his blindness, but gout

was a torment. Milton spent his last nine years in a cottage (now a museum) and died on

11/08/1674, Chalfont St. Giles, England.

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