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in the greater number, their sight, like that of those who were 

 not myopic, has become more distant as the pupil became 

 more dilated. — In one gentleman, in whom the lines of the 

 optometer appeared to meet at four inches and a quarter from 

 the eye, the pupil, in half an hour after the application of the 

 belladonna, became completely dilated, and in consequence 

 of this the sight at first was confused ; but both on that day, 

 and for two days afterwards, it was evidently more distant, 

 and the apparent lines on the optometer could not be made to 

 meet nearer than seven inches from the eye. — In a young 

 lady, seventeen years of age, whose right eye was so near 

 sighted that the apparent lines on the optometer met at two 

 inches and three quarters from the eye, these lines, when 

 the pupil was dilated (which took place in a small degree 

 in less than half an hour), could not be made to meet in 

 less than three inches and a quarter; and on the follow- 

 ing day, the pupil being more dilated, the lines did not meet 

 till they were at the distance of nearly four inches. — In 

 a third instance, viz. that of a lady forty-five years of 

 age, who had been remarkably near sighted from her in- 

 fancy, and for many years had used concave glasses of the 

 fifteenth number, (which number is ground on each side, 

 upon a tool the radius of which is only three inches,) the 

 sight was become so confused in both eyes, that she saw 

 nothing distinctly, and was unable to read letters, of the 

 size that are used in the printed Transactions of the Royal 

 Society, either with or without a glass. In this case, after 

 the pupils had been dilated by the application of the bella- 

 donna, the sight was so much improved that she was able 

 to read a print of the abovementioned size at the distance 



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