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deed was a deplorable Cafe, which made the" poor 

 Man feek out 011 every Hand for help, notwithftand-' 

 ing that I had given him my Opinion, that his 

 Eyes were incurable by Art ; and if he ever recover- 

 ed, it muft be by Accident. But what does it fig- 

 Tiify talking to blind Men, and telling them the 

 'Iruth; for thougli they are abfolutely incurable, 

 they are flill in hopes of receiving Benefit from fbme 

 P/eienJer or other, who does nothi^ng efFeiStaally 

 befides picking the Patient's Pocket ; and really one 

 would be furprized, to find fo many poor de- 

 1 ud'd Mortals feeking Relief from tliefc ignorant 

 Impofiors. 



I know feveral Gentlemen and Ladies who have 

 the Misfortune to be incurably blind ; but more ^-^r- 

 Mr.Nul.cUs ticularly one, to wit, Mr. Nichclas Kent, an 

 2vt'ir 6Lalc. eminent and very honeft SoUicitor in London, who 

 is quite Blind \ yet to a Perfon not well acquainted 

 with the Strudure of the Eye, this worthy Man ap- 

 pears as if he could fee as well as any one in the 

 Room with him. EI is Cafe is a Varix of the Blood- 

 Vt9ith, chiefly of the Retina ; what I mean by a 

 Varix, is a Dilatation or Stretching of the Veins, 

 not the Arteries, where the Blood turns into a kind 

 of Eddy, and makes a Knot upon the Part. I fay 

 this is Mr. Kent\ Cafe, and is not any ways re- 

 mediable, though I have been informed he applied 

 himfelf to Mr. T — r, the Travelling Oculift, 

 who I doubt not would give good Encouragement 

 for a good Fee. But I have reafon to doubt that 

 Mr. T — r\ Hand and Heart are mere Strangers to 

 one another ; or that if he fpeaks as he thinks, he 

 is very ignorant. But to return to poor Harry 

 Dumball, who led me into this tedious DigrelTion : 

 Dy.mlalVs I fay, this poor Fellow, after he had been Blind 

 ^^^^'. fome Years, applied himfelf to Mr. Green, faid to 



concmued. ^^ g^^ ^^ ^^^ famous Green of Done after a pretty 

 good Stage-Orator in his Time, who promifed to re- 

 liore him his Eye-Sight : But the Man being poor, 

 a Perfon undertook to nuke a CoUedtion for him to 



pay 



