174 rHJLOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1758. 



scjuare form ; many of them an inch and a half long, and about three-fourths 

 of an inch wide and deep; and from one side of most of them there proceeded 

 sharp spikes, protuberant at least half an inch. He says he cooled his wine, and 

 froze creiim, with some of them the next day; and they were not totally dis- 

 solved when he went to bed on Monday night. This storm broke every pane of 

 glass on the north side his house, and destroyed all his garden things entirely. 



He mentions likewise the heats as having been rather more than usual in that 

 country this summer; and particularly on the Qth of August his thermometer 

 (which is hung on the outside of his house on the north aspect) was at 97? by 

 Fahrenheit's graduation, and some other days as high as 94 or 95. 



CI. An Extraordinary Case of a Diseased Eye. By D. P. Layard, M. /)., 



F. R. S. p. 747. 



In October 1755 Dr. L. communicated to Dr. Maty, and he inserted in the 

 last vol. of his Journal Britannique, the case of Susannah Earle, who, in con- 

 sequence of the hooping cough, was afflicted with a protruded eye. The pre- 

 sent case is somewhat similar to that girl's in its first appearance and progress, 

 but by accident attended with a 2d disease. 



John Law, a robust lad, 13 years old, in Easter week 17 56, beating dung 

 about a close with unusual force, on a sudden felt a violent pain in his left eye. 

 The pain increased, an inflammation ensued, and the eye grew daily larger. 

 The poor boy's mother after several unsuccessful applications, brought her son, 

 Oct. 7, to Mr. Daniel Hopkins, surgeon, in Huntingdon; and having desired 

 Dr. L.'s opinion, both examined the eye together. 



The left eye was protruded out of its orbit, and hung down over the cheek to 

 the upper lip. The coats were greatly discoloured, all the vessels turgid, the 

 sight totally lost, and .the humours appeared like fluctuating pus. They saw the 

 necessity of an immediate extirpation, to save the right eye, already greatly in- 

 flamed; and having apprized the mother and boy of the state the eye was in, a 

 consultation was desired with 2 surgeons of St. Ives; accordingly Mr. Skeeles 

 and Mr. Want very charitably met Mr. Hopkins and Dr. L. the next day. On 

 Mr. Want's pressing with his finger on the pupil, the globe burst at the edge of 

 the iris, and discharged pus. The extirpation of the eye was unanimously agreed 

 on, and immediately performed. Mr. Hopkins made a puncture with a lancet 

 close to the external and small canthus of the eye, and then with a pair of 

 crooked scissars took off all the distended globe close to the eye-lids. He then 

 cleaned the cavity of the purulent humours, and filled it with soft lint, over 

 which he applied bolsters dipped in warm red wine and water, and the monoculus 

 bandage to keep on the whole dressings. The lad was bled in the arm ; nitrous 

 medicines and anodynes were prescribed, and a suitable regimen. The fever and 



