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Parts of the Eye, which, upon taking it out, appear’d 
to be the Cryftalline Humour grown opake,and fome- 
thing left than its natural Size, having two or three 
linallDents, or Impreflions, made in its Circumfe- 
rence, which it had received from the Needle during 
the Operation of couching. 
The next Day he examin’d the right Eye in the lame 
manner, in the Prefence of feveral eminent Phyltcians 
and Surgeons, and other curious Perfons, whom he had 
invited to the Demonftration, and found in it the Cry- 
ftalline grown opake and deprefted in the fame manner . 
as the former, to the bottom of theEy e, ftill carrying the 
Marks of the Needle evidently upon it, but found no Pel- 
licle within the Eye, notwithftanding the moft diligent 
Search he could make for it. Signor Benevoli farther 
relates, that having formerly made fome Experiments 
upon the Eyes of dead Subjects, at Bologna^ in company 
with Dr. Valfalva^ he had introduced the Needle into 
the Eye in the fame Place, and in the lame Manner, as 
is commonly praeftiled in the Operation of couching, 
' and having afterwards difteefted the lame Eyes, he had 
always found, that the Needle had pafs’d into the Eye on 
the backfide of the Cryftalline Humour, fo that it had 
been impoftible to bring the Needle forward from 
thence into that Part of the aqueous Humour, which 
is feated between the 'Vvea and the Cryftalline Hu- 
mour, in order to deprefs a Pellicle feated there, ac- 
cording to the common Opinion, unlefs he would have 
pafs’d his Needle thro’ the Body of the Cryftalline. 
This curious Author likewife oblerves, that the 
aforelaid Space, between the ^vea and the Cryftalline 
Humour, is lb very narrow, that tho’ he finds it not 
impolTible to introduce a Needle into that Space, yet 
there is by no means room enough to turn the Needle 
up and down in all Dire<ftions, with that Freedom, 
that 
