SNAKE in a HORSE?’s EYE. 389 
The milky appearance has for fome weeks grown gra- 
dually more opaque; from which circumftance it is pro- 
bable the difeafe occafioned by the prefence of an extra-= 
neous body, or unnatural animal irritating the organ, 
will gradually produce too great obfcurity to afford that 
fatisfaction in viewing it, which hitherto it has done and 
{till continues to afford. 
It has been my with, and I have expreffed my opinion 
to feveral gentlemen that it would be worth while, to make 
up a {um of money and purchafe the horfe for fake of dif- 
feting the eye, whilft the animal is yet alive, but no no- 
tice has been yet taken of it: Perhaps the owner keeping 
it for fhow places too high a value upon it. I have fur- 
ther defired, if that purchafe is not made, to have an op- 
portunity of taking out the eye and diflecting it immedi- 
ately after death, whenever that event takes place, if it 
happens where I am. 
The eye has been infpected by feveral gentlemen of the 
faculty, who are aftonifhed, and at a lofs to account for the 
appearance on common principles or from known difeafes; 
a queftion then naturally arifes in the minds of moft who 
have feen or heard of it, viz. If it be a real fnake or other 
living animal, how it got there, or whether there are other 
inconteftible hiftories to match it, in the annals of medi- 
cal hiftory, of animals bred in man or other animals, as 
difficult to be accounted for ? 
I anfwer, Faéts are what [ am more concerned to efta- 
blith than fpeculative opinions ; therefore inftead of lead- 
ing to theories that may be idle and groundlefs, I fhall be 
fatisfied to refer all who doubt the reality of its being a 
{nake in the eye, firft to the hiftory of the Guinea worm, 
of which I have had more than one cafe falling under 
my own care, and have feen others in the Pennfylva- 
nia hofpital, extra&ted from the leg, feveral yards in 
length; fecondly, to the well known hiftory of a jointed 
worm bred in the liver of Mrs Holt, in this city, about 
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