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of the hollow wire or cylinder ; if the fear mould heal without 

 lofmg its tranfparency, many blind people might be made to fee 

 tolerably well by this flight and not painful operation. An ex- 

 periment I wifh ftrongly to recommend to fome ingenious fur- 

 geon or oculift. 



Or it may be attempted by preffing one end of a fmall canula 

 on the centre of the cornea, and paffing down it a bit of luna 

 cornea, fixed in the end of a fmaller canula, and thus introdu- 

 ced : the eye may be held fteady by paffing a thread by means 

 of a fmall curved needle through a part of the tunica adjunfti- 

 va, which may be held by an affiftant, or by preffing on it the 

 end of the canula as above, which might have a flat circular rim. 

 round its extremity for that purpofe. 



