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pcted into universal fashion, for no other reason but because 

 it is difficuh to perform, and therefore keeps the business in 

 the hands of a few empirics, who receive larger rewards, 

 regardless of the hazard which is encountered by the flat- 

 tered patient. 



A friend of mine returned vestcrdav from London after 

 an absence of maliy weeks ,; he had a cataract in a proper 

 slate tor the operation, and, in spite of my earnest exhorta- 

 tion to the contrary, was prevailed upon to have it extracted 

 rather than depressed. He was confined to his bed three 

 weeks after the operation, and is now returned viith the iris 

 adhering on one side so as to make aii oblong aperture j and 

 which is nearly, if not totally, without contraction, and 

 thus greatly impedes the little vision which he possesses. 

 Whereas I saw some patients couched by depression many 

 years ago by a then celebrated empiric. Chevalier Taylor, 

 who were not confined above a day or two, that the eye 

 might gradually be accustomed to light, and who saw as 

 well as by extraction, perhaps better, without either pain, 

 or inflammation, or any hazard of losing th^ eye. 



As the inflammation of the iris is probably owing to for- 

 cing the crystalline through the aperture of it in the operation 

 of extracting it, Could it not be done more safely by making 

 the opening behind the iris and ciliary process into (he vi- 

 treous humour? But the operation would still be more pain- 

 ful, more dangerous, and not more useful than that bv de- 

 pressing it. 



[To be continued.] 



L\'. On Faccination. Bij Ralph Blkgborough, ]\I.D. 



To Mr. Titloch. 

 sin, 



X KHCEiviNG that you arc impartial, at least on the subject 

 of vaccination, I send you the followino; letter, already sent 

 to the editor of another work, but which I much fear he 

 will not find il convenient to insert; 



and remain your.s, he. 



UaI.PII HLKOBnndlfOlI. 



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