3 5^ .DISORDERED EYES. 



cumfrantially to defcnbe, for the benefit of my fellow^ 

 fufrerers, the whole procefs which by infeniible degrees 

 I found to be the heft. 



At firft getting up in the morning I carefully avoided 

 all light, and palled at lean: a quarter of an hour ill 

 total darknefs. With a moiffc piece of fine linen, during 

 this time I wiped my eyes as gently as poflible ; and 

 then let as much light into the chamber as was j.uffc ne- 

 cefTary for dimnguifhing one object from another. As 

 foon as my eyes were completely dried, I found I could 

 bear fomewhat more light. I then let a good hour 1 

 elapfe ere I applied the bread fleeped in water. If it 

 happened that I did it fooner, it infallibly followed 

 that I had inflamed eyes for the whole day ; attended 

 with great pain. I now took the pieces of bread from 

 the middle of the roll, about a quarter of an inch deep* 

 that, on being laid on, they might better fit the whole 

 eye and fill every part of it at once. When they were 

 competently foaked in the cold water, I laid the two 

 pieces on both eyes at the fame time ; holding them on 

 with my hands. As foon as I perceived that they were 

 become warm by the heat of the eyes, which happened 

 in about two. or three minutes, I took them off. This 

 done, I dipped a fine handkerchief in cold water, and 

 drew it gently to and fro about my eyes, for wiping 

 away all the particles of the bread that might remain in 

 the corners and on the lower eye-lids, as well as for 

 wafhing off the purulent moifture that had in the mean 

 time been collecting- in the extremities of the eves or 

 were adhering to the lower eye-lids. As furely as I 

 .neglected this abfterfion, fo furely had I inflamed eye3 

 the whole day long. 



