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then apply’d a Loadstone to it, and immediately it jumpt our."

6 .1 was consolted by a Maid who had a Pustle broke in her Eye, outoF /i> p. 739.which tliere came fine Imall Sand, like Chalk, formanyWeeks together: Imade use of Purging, Fumigation,and forne Topicks, by which fhc recover’dher fight in a very great meas ire.

7. About 6 or 7 Years ago, I had one Mr. Oyhff in Cure of his Eye. It p s , 9<was as big as my Fist, black, stefhy, and füll of blewifh Bladders,- this I

judged to be a Cancer. After Purging and Bleeding, I cut olit the Ball, andulcered Flelh, by many Cuts, whkh were all insensible to him* tiil I catne rothe Qfttck Nerve : at the last Cut he complain’d, and bled a httle ; theWoundwas hcal d in about a Fortnight.

8. A young Man, my Patient, had an Eye as big as an Hcn’s Egg, veryfair, without Blemifh, Rheum, or Redness; and his Light was prctry tolera-ble; I judged these Symptoms to pfoceed from thin Humours fallen on theEye, and extending irs Coats: I cured this Distemper by applying dryihgMedicines to the Hend and Eyes, and making an Issue in Nucha ; JppetloMorbum Oculum Bovinum, ßve Oculi Hydropem.

XVI. When I was not above 60 Years of Age,my Light was so much decsy’d, of« <■<» Keif t,that! scem’d alwaysto have akind of thick Smoak or Mist about nie, and '

(ome little black Balls to dance in the Airbefore my Eyes; I could not di- />-717.stinguish the Faces of my Acquuintande, nor Men from Women, nör keepthe plain troden paths except 1 was led. I reteived no benefit by aiiyGlafles, but was in the Oase of those whose decay by Age was greater thancan behelped by Spectacles. The sahest Prints ftem’d through Spectacleslike blind Prints, little Black remainmgi But I found great help by thefollowing Expedient: I took Spectacles that had the largell Circle's; dose totheSemicircles, on the over part, on both sides, I cut the Bone; then,takingout the Glaste?, I put blatk Spanilh-Leather taper-wife into the emptied Cir-des, which widen’d enough ftogerher with the increasing widenesi of theLeather,) tookin my whole Eye at the wider end; and presently throughthe smaller end I could read the lmallcst Prints that are, as iftheyhad beert alarge and fair Character. I made these empty Tubes of different lengrhs, andthe (maller ends ofdifterentbignefles: 1 can only pur the very end of my littleFinger into the Orifice of the fester, but the seme Finger (ömewhat deeper,yet not quite up to the first Joynt, I can insert into the Orifice of the wider.

The Tubes may be of Paper only coloured Black, and pasted on, andwith the inner folds to be drawn out from one Inch to three ; some of thefolds to be taken out, that the Orifice may be wider or narrower, as best firsto every degree of Desect,

Probably, these Tubes may be proper for some that are Squint-eyed,whose Eyes do intersere ; butcertainly they will easc them that cannot wellbear the Light, and perchance they will preserve the Light for longer Du-rance.

After I had used ! these Tubes little more than a Week, I could usc themwithout much trouble all the Day long; and my Light was so muchVol. III. , G amended