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PHYSICAL anp LITERARY. 355 
ART. XXII. 
Some Obfervations on the new Method of  . 
curing the Cataract, by extracting the 
Cryftalline Humour ; by THoMas Younc 
Surgeon in Edinburgh *, 
O reftore loft fight, is recovering one 
of the moft ufeful of all the fenfes, 
_ and the couching of the cataract, would 
_ be one of the moft valuable operations, 
could it always be done with fafety ; but 
’ the bad fuccefs, and dreadful confequen- * 
ces which often attend it, have deterred 
many good furgeons from performing this 
operation, and thrown it’much into the 
hands of empyrics. 
I have couched but few in the old way, 
and thofe with fuch bad fuccefs, that I 
was fully determined to operate no more ' 
_ on the eyes; nor did the fuccefs of the new 
_ method performed by the ingenious M. 
Daviel, alter my refolution for a confide- 
rable 
> March 4, 1756, 
