()04 VHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1735. 



linimentum Arcaei, and she had not the least accident from the day of the opera- 

 tion to the 25th of the same month, when she was perfectly cured, without any 

 deformity in her eye : and though the lid was cut away very high, the eye re- 

 mained very neat and well, performing its several functions properly when he 

 left Bounleaux; and the 13th of August 1742, having had an opportunity of 

 taking a journey to that town, he saw the patient again, whom he found ex- 

 tremely well, seeing perfectly with that eye : but what he found very singular 

 was, that the skm of the lid descended pretty low, to the cornea, which it al- 

 most covered ; so that the whole globe was in a manner hid. He onlv observed 

 that this resembleii a lid without hairs. 



Observ. 1. — On another cancerous tumor in the great angle of the eye. July 

 2, 1736, Margaret Combaucaut, of Carcastone in Languedoc, 60 years old, 

 had a cancerous tumour, for 16 years, in the great angle of the right eye: it 

 began by a little wart, which itched violently, and made her scratch it very often, 

 which so irritated the tumor, that in a little time it became as large as a dried 

 fig flatted, with its edges turned outward and callous. It reached from the 

 commissure of the lower lid, an inch and half below it, even to the right ala of 

 the nose, which proved extremely troublesome to her. He found, after a strict 

 examination, that it adhered to the bone. She said she tried all the remedies 

 that she imagined would do her any good ; but that, far from relieving her, they 

 rather made her worse, and her disease became the moi-e insupportable , and that 

 she had taken a resolution to undergo any thing to be freed from a disorder 

 which had afflicted her for 1 6 years. 



Having consulted Mr. Fabre, an able physician of that place, they were both 

 of opinion, that she could not be cured without an operation, which he accord- 

 ingly proceeded to as follows : he took off" the tumor entirely to the periosteum, 

 but did not lay the bone bare ; for he thought it sufficient for a complete cure to 

 take away all the callosities; but he was mistaken ; for instead of the prospect of 

 a succeeding cure, he was unhappy enough to see the swelling increase, and the 

 wound seem larger than before. He used in vain all the remedies commonly 

 thought of in such cases ; he scarified the edges of the ulcer, to bring it to sup- 

 puration ; but it became more hard and callous than before the operation, and 

 much more painful. He therefore resolved to cut away all that remained of the 

 tumor, with the periosteum, which appeared very much swelled. This second 

 operation had so much success, that the swelling, and every other bad symptom, 

 disappeared almost suddenly; and in 3 days the wound looked red and very well, 

 without any pain, and the cicatrix was perfectly formed on the 15 th day from 

 the operation, without any sensible exfoliation of the bone, or the least deformity 

 or staring of the eye. She had remained very well ever after ; for he saw her the 

 10th of August 1741, at Carcastone, in perfect health ; and the cicatrix of the 



