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The Grant brothers of Maidstone claimed they could see into people's lungs.
His brother William, nine years his junior, acquired it too and together they treated patients in the family home at Sheals Court, Old Tovil Road, Maidstone, with their sister Harriett providing nursing care. At the inquest, Albert Grant hinted that he had worked on his science for some years without success, but once he perfected it he managed to grow a completely new eye and a lung (presumably in a patient rather than out of thin air). Grant next appeared in the papers in September 1911, when he wrote to the Board of Guardians asking for an extension of the school holidays for a blind girl, Eva Coppin, who was under his treatment.
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