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4« I have often noted fome that are fhort-fighed I fay not 
fore-blind, to difcern all things that are doneabout them,almoft 
quite behind them, more perfectly then the beft-fighted, if the 
room was not too large for the reach of their fight. 
% Alfo fome of Dr. Lowers Obferuations I could confirm^ 
by my own experience. In my youngeft days I had a very nar- 
row efcape from an excellent Horfe, which had that only defeft, 
which they call Moon-blind (and they told me of it after the mif- 
chief.) I purpes'd to leap a Ditch, bur the Horfe faw no Ditch, 
fo we fell in together. As Goach-and Cart-horfes have flaps on 
the Ear'- fides of their eyes. fothefe flaps may befitted (and in ; 
fome (hew of ornament J to fhadow the over-part of the eyes*, 
and yet to afford them light enough to fee their way. I know 
not, whether it fee ufiaal amongft you % but I have feen a young 
Child wear a kind of black Riband, like a narrow Mafque before 
her eyes, the Riband or Maske having holes made in fit places • 
to guide the eye. And this was faid to bean effedual remedy 
to cure the Child of Squinting) which fhe had hereditarily from 
her Mother. 
To conclude, for your trial of the Tubulous fpeaactes\t\e 
Tubes may be of paper only colored black, and parted on, and 
with the inner folds to be drawn out from one inch to three $ fome 
of the folds to be taken out, that the orifice may be wider or 
narrower, as- beft fits to every degree of defed, 
of the Antiquity of the Transfufion of Blond from one Animal - 
to another* 
^T^Here hath been of late fome conteft about the Origin of the 
, J_ Transfufion, the EngUfh fit ft claiming it as a late Invention 
of theirs 5 the French pretending thereupon., that it had been* 
propofed among them ten years agoe: after which, it was affirm'd 
upon further inveftigation ; by fome ingenious peifons in England, 
that there \t had been known 30 years agoe - 7 whereof the fuh- 
lifher of thefe Traces hath good proof in his hands. But it feems 5 ; 
that an Italian Philofopher, in a certan Tradtv entituled, Melati- 
me dell'Efperiencefatte inlnghilterra^ Iranda & Italia intornfrla* 
Trmsfufme del Sangue y lately printed in Bome y (for the notice- 
• , . ■ whereat 
