60fi THILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1755. 



declared for taking the tumor and eye-lid entirely off; making this prognostic, 

 that if any part was left behind, the eye would be deformed and staring ; but the 

 other surgeon thought, that half the lid with the tumor would be sufficient for 

 the cure: Mons. Daviel therefore only cut away half the lid with the tumor ; with 

 which he also took off a large quantity of hard white fat, and dressed up the part 

 as usual ; but in the progress the lid was turned outward, and then they resolved 

 on the total extirpation of the lid ; which, being obliged to depart from thence, 

 he left to Mons. Maillot, who performed it with such success, that his cure was 

 complete in 15 days, without the least deforniity whatever. 

 . The 10th Observation is a case of the same nature with the former, with this 

 difference, that when he had taken off the tumor and under lid in the same 

 manner as usual ; the patient continued getting well till the Qth day from the 

 operation ; when Mons. Daviel perceived a small fungus in the middle of the 

 tumor, which he touched with the lapis infernalis, which produced very ill effects: 

 the eye grew painful, the conjunctive swelled very much, the wound, which was 

 half healed up, opened afresh, and became ragged. This made him set about 

 cutting away all the bad flesh he could perceive, with the inequalities of the 

 conjunctive, which was much swelled : he scarified the cornea, and in the inner 

 surface of the upper lid, which was also greatly tumefied, and even opened it on 

 tlie upper surface. Thus, after having emptied the vessels well, he fomented the 

 whole with a decoction of marshmallows, mullein, violet- leaves, camomile-flowers, 

 melilot, leaves and flowers of rosemary, thyme, lavender, rue, and marjoram, 

 of each half a handful, in a sufficient quantity of water; to a quart of which he 

 put a bit of camphor the size of a nut. The frequent application of this that 

 day produced so good an effect, that all her pain ceased : he also bled her in the 

 arm and foot, ordering emollient clysters. She was purged some days after, with 

 manna and cassia, which did very well ; and she was perfectly cured, without 

 the least deformity, and could see better than before the operation. 



XXXI. Of Four Roman Inscriptions, cut on Three Large Stones. By John 

 Ward, LL.D., F.P.R.S. p. 196. 



The stones were found in a field near a mile from Wroxeter, formerly a Roman 

 station called Uriconium,* in the months of September and October 1752. The 

 first of them was discovered by a plough striking against it ; and by spitting the 

 ground the other two were discovered, not far from the first, in the like situ- 

 ation. The first and last lay separate from their bases, which being taken up, 



• In the year 1701, a Roman sudatory was discovered at this place, a draught of which, with some 

 account of it, was published in the Phil. Trans. N" 306, which seems to have escaped the observa- 

 tion ol Horsley, Brit. Rom. p. 419. — Orig. 



