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fork. An inflammation followed, with great pain. The whole eye appeared 

 dark and turbid ; and the humours seemed confused, and blended together. 

 Mr. B. opened a vein in the arm, and drew away 10 oz. of blood : he then 

 washed the eye with a collyrium of trochisci albi rhasis, and common water, 

 made blood-warm ; and dressed it with a cataplasm of white bread and milk, 

 with a little saflron in it. The next day there appeared on the wounded part of 

 the cornea, a large thick slough : he dressed it in the same manner ; and so 

 continued till the ] 8th day of the same month, when the slough cast off. He 

 purged her during this time with decoct, sennae §ij, mann. solut. Jss, aq. paeon, 

 comp. 3ij ; m. f. potio, at the distance of about 3 days, just as he found her 

 strength would permit. The inflammation and pain abated daily. During the 

 whole time, the eye was quite blind, till the slough cast off, when she com- 

 plained she saw double. In a very little time her sight returned, but not so 

 perfect as before ; her eye having somewhat of a cloud before it. 



He made her 6 visits at the distance of '2 or 3 days, after the 18th : when he 

 left her, she saw perfectly well, that cloud which she before complained of, 

 being removed ; her eye appeared fair and clear, and equally strong and useful 

 to her as the other. A little speck, which was the cicatrix of the wound, re- 

 maining on the cornea, he made her a fontanel in the arm, and ordered her to 

 keep it open, and not to touch the speck on her eye. More than 2 years after- 

 wards, the speck had gradually decreased, and was so small, that it was scarcely 

 visible ; and her sight was as perfect and strong as before the accident. 



jin Account of a monstrous Boy. By Andrew Cantwell, M. D. dated Mont- 

 pelier, Dec. 17, 1731, n. s. N°453, p. 137. 



There was at the above date at Montpelier, a boy 13 years of age, born at 

 Cremona, who bore the lower parts of another boy, which seemed to issue from 

 his epigastric region, between the cartilage ensiformis and the navel. The fore- 

 part of the one faced that of the other. The head and trunk seemed buried in 

 the boy's abdomen, down to the hips, where the connection was plainly to be 

 seen. This portion of the prominent body had a well-formed anus and penis. 

 The scrotum had a fine down on it, but was void of testicles, and seemed to be 

 filled with the intestines. Nothing passed through these 2 outlets. Dr. C. 

 could perfectly well distinguish the 2 ossa iliClm in their natural state, but 

 could not feel the os sacrum. The articulation of the femur was somewhat dis- 

 cernible on each side : and Dr. C. perceived the pulsation of the anterior crural 

 arteries. The boy felt very sensibly when these additional feet, legs, or but- 



