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warm wine, hardened itfelf in fuch a manner as to 

 become a corn, like thofe which arife on the toes. As 

 this hard excrefcence, in its growth, continually ex- 

 tended towards the inner eye, it caufed me to feel 

 great pain at every motion of the eye-lid; and the 

 whole eye, by the conftant friction of the corn at every 

 opening and Ihutting of the «ye-lids, was inflamed 

 without intermiffion. Several emollient and difTolvent 

 -medicines were tried ; but without effecl. The corn 

 grew conftantly greater ; and with it my pains in- 

 creafed, I was obliged to keep the eye day and night 

 bound up with linen, only to prevent the moving of. 

 the eye-lids. 



My good parents were much grieved, and looked 

 about for what affiftance they could procure. But the 

 phyiicians and furgeons of our part of the country had 

 exhaufted their art upon me ; the corn continued, and 

 was increaling. At length I was fent to a famous furgeon 

 who reiided in a town at fome diftance. He thought 

 an operation neceffary, and I mtift refolve to fubmit to 

 it. He cut the corn, with its root, which was pretty 

 deep, out of the eye -lid ; and a fwoon into which the 

 exceffive pain occafioned me to fall, gave him time to 

 do it at his eafe. 



The cutting was painful, but the healing of the 

 wound it had caufed was nearly as much fo. For now 

 I was forced day and night to wear a plainer on the 

 •eye -lid, whereby the inner eye was rub ( bed, at every 

 the fmallefr motion of the eye-lids, Hill more than before 

 by the corn. And, as the plaifter would feldom lie 

 lmooth on the wound, the cure went on but flowly and 

 badly. There remained on the place where the corn 



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