3J+ ESSAYS AKD OBSERVATIONS 



Atr. XXII. 



Some Ohfervations on the new Method tf -CU'-' 

 ring the Cataradt, by extraSiing the Cryficd^ 

 Ime Humour ; by Thomas Young Surgeon 

 in Edinburgh *. 



TO reftore loft fight, is recovering one 

 of the moft ufeful of all the fenfes, 

 and the couching of the cataracfl, would be 

 on« of the moft valuable operations, could 

 it always be done with fafety j but the bad 

 fuccefs, and dreadful confequences which 

 often attend it, have deterred many good 

 Surgeons from performing this operation, 

 and thrown it much into the hands of em- 

 pyrics. 



I have couched but few in the old way, 

 and tbofe 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 confiderable time, till, 

 at the importunity of fome of my beft friends, 



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* March 4. 1756. 



