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when deprived of the Crystalline Lens . 
not mentioned, the opinion was not advanced, without what 
appeared to him sufficient authority.* 
* Et lente ob cataractam extracta vel deposita, oculum tamen ad varias distantias 
videre, ut coram in nobili viro video, absque ullo experimento, quo earn facultatem 
recuperaverit. Et si enim tunc, ob diminutas vires, quae radios uniunt, aeger lente 
vitrea opus habet, eadem lens in omnia distantia sufficit. 
Haller. Elementa Physiologies . Tom. V. Lib. xvi. §. 25. p. 514. 
