2.30 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



6. Agnes Barrowman, aged about 30 

 years, was admitted into the Royal Infir- 

 mary, with cataradts in both eyes. 

 . .1, operated on the left eye the a6th of 

 OBohsr 1755. 



The fpace betwixt her eye-lids, wh€n rai- 

 fed up, was fo fmall, that I could with dif- 

 ficulty fee all the corneay which, in this pa- 

 tient, was remarkably flat. 



As foon as I had pafTed the knife into the 

 anterior chamber, fhe was feized with a fit 

 of coughing, which obliged me to cut the- 

 cornea in a very great hurry. The opening 

 in the cornea was but fmall, which gave me 

 more difficulty in extrading the cryftalline, 

 than I had in any of the former. 



Notwithstanding this unlucky acci- 

 dent, (he had a tolerably good recovery ; her 

 eye was pained, and fomewhat inflamed, for 

 fometime after the operation, but never vio- 

 lently. She was difmiflTed the houfe about 

 fix weeks after the operation, being then 

 able to difl;ingui/h very fmall objed^s. 

 - N. B. Some eyes are more proper for this 

 operation than others ; the larger the eye, 

 and the more convex the cornea^ the opera- 

 tion will be the eafier. This woman had a 



remarkably 



