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spongy soft substances began to appear, he touched them with the lunar caustic, 

 and the wound filled up apace. The eye still continued immoveable, them usculi 

 adductores had been so long contracted, and the abductores so overstretched 

 and lengthened, that they had lost their use ; he could however observe that, by 

 pressing with his hand on the globe of the eye with a little force, he could bring 

 it a good deal more into the socket, but on taking away his hand, it would im- 

 mediately return to its former place. This made him think that a constant and 

 gradual pressure, by some proper bandage, might be of service to force the globe 

 into its place, and keep it there till the muscles had recovered their tone : accord- 

 ingly he got a steel bandage, with a concave brass plate corresponding to the 

 convexity of the eye ; which, by the means of a screw, bore on the side of the 

 globe next the temple. He applied this bandage, by first gently forcing the globe 

 more into its place with his hand ; then putting a thick soft compress between 

 the globe and the brass plate, screwed it down on the globe in such a manner, 

 that it was impossible for it to start back again as it used to do. 



He left an assistant with the patient all night, with instructions — if the ban- 

 dage caused great pain, to ease the screw ; and so, by gradually forcing it more 

 and more, and keeping this bandage constantly applied day and night, in about 

 20 days the eye was brought quite into its place, so as to remain there of itself, 

 had all its regular motions every way, and the patient saw with that eye as well 

 as with the other. 



In the morning, when he used to take off the bandage, he could observe that 

 side of the globe which the plate bore on considerably flattened, and yet not 

 attended with any pain, or bad consequence. In about a month the wound was 

 quite healed up. A spongy carnosity had grown all along the inside of the lower 

 eyelid, which, being long over-stretched by the tumour, was so relaxed, that 

 after the operation it turned inside out, and occasioned that disorder which is 

 called ectropion : the upper eyelid having been very much extended for so many 

 years by the globe, on the eye returning to its place, was so relaxed, that its 

 cartilage, on the contrary, turned inwards ; by which the cilia or hairs on its 

 borders rubbed against the globe of the eye, and occasioned the disease commonly 

 called trichiasis. For the cure of the ectropion he passed a crooked needle 

 through the middle of the carnosity, and raising it by the thread, he cut it off 

 with the scissars ; he afterwards touched the inside of the eyelid with the lunar 

 caustic, to destroy what remained of the carnosity , and giving the eschar time 

 to throw off, he repeated the same twice or thrice, by which the eyelid, in about 

 a fortnight, recovered its healthful and proper situation. He did not think 

 proper to torment the poor patient with the operation of the trichiasis ; which, 

 though very easy to the operator, is not so to the patient ; and he found, by the 



