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a disease equally troublesome to the patient, and disagree- 
able to others. Yet it is sometimes practised as a trick to 
deceive the unwary. I have seen several French sailors who 
could turn down their under eye-lids, and keep them so for 
several hours without any inconvenience: by means of this 
practice, according to their own account, they often saved 
themselves from an English prison: their eyes being so 
hideous, and feigning other sickness, the English officers: 
were happy in getting rid of them. The author however 
has succeeded in effectually curing eversion, when it is an 
actual disease, by cutting the eye-lid so as to make it fit 
the eye, a safe and speedy process of reducing the organi- 
zation to a natural state. He has also obtained consider- 
able popularity by his operations on different kinds of 
cataract. On the latter subject some of his remarks menit 
public attention, particularly his recommendation of an 
early operation on the eyes of children born with this dis- 
ease. Persons who have ‘‘ had congenital (or more pro- 
perly connate) cataract removed at an advanced age, are 
equally destitute of a knowledge of visual objects as the 
merest infant, while at the same time they are placed in 
circumstances far more unfavourable for its acquisition. 
The healthy infant examines every object with all the eager- 
ness natural to its age; while the more aged congenital pa- 
tient, from long continued habit, has. contracted a disin- 
clination to the exercise of the eyes, which he is seldom 
able entirely to overcome. The rolling motion of the eye 
depending on an involuntary action of the muscles, is there= 
fore extremely difficult to be corrected, when the removal 
of the cataract has been long delayed, and it affords another 
obstacle to improvement in vision: this points out the ne- 
cessity of an early operation.” Mr. Saunders eured an 
infant of two months; Mr. Johnson one of six, and 
the author one of ten months old. The propriety, and 
necessity indeed, of an early operation on the eyes 
of children born blind in consequence of cataract, are 
sufficiently obvious; it must also contribute to the cer- 
tainty and completeness of the cure. Aged patients cured 
of cataract have nevertheless declined the labour of acquir- 
ing distinct vision. The author, if possible, would not 
“suffer an infant’s eyes to be exposed to the light ull the 
cataracts were removed.” He adds, .‘* an intelligent pers 
son should always be appointed to superintend the manage- 
ment of those cured of congenital cataracts, whose sole 
business should be to watch and correct as much as possible 
those habits which impede the acquirement of vision, and 
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