£ORN BLIND AND DEAF. 



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Since the foregoing narrative reached me, I have had the 

 good fortune to receive a most important and authentic sup- 

 plement to it, from Dr John Gordon ; a gentleman, on whose 

 recent admission into our number, I beg leave to congratulate 

 the Society. Having communicated to him, on the suggestion 

 of our colleague Dr John Thomson, Mr Glennie's letter with 

 the inclosed statement, he most obligingly undertook, on a 

 very short notice, to add to it whatever particulars relative to 

 the same subject had fallen under his own personal knowledge. 

 Of the ability with which he has executed this task, amidst his 

 various professional avocations, I have no doubt that the So- 

 ciety will think as highly as I do. 



Supplement to the foregoing Account of James Mitchell, by 



John Gordon, M. D. 



" The boy who is the subject of the above interesting com- 

 munication, was brought by his father to visit me at Forres in 

 the autumn of 1808.- 



" I found on examination that he had a cataract in each eye. 

 Irrboth, the crystalline lens had a pearly colour, and appeared 

 to be of a firm consistence ; but the pupils exhibited very per- 

 ceptible contraction and dilatation, when the quantity of light 

 was suddenly increased or diminished. The auricle or exter- 

 nal part of each ear, and the tube leading from it to the tym- 

 panum, were of their natural size and. form; and nothing un- 

 usual 



