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This Account might be confitmed by many more 
Experiments I have made relating to this Subjed; but 
as I hope thefe already mentioned will be thought 
fufficient to confirm the Truth of what I have ad- 
vanced, I lhall forbear to trefipafs any longer on your 
Time, and fubfcribe rnyfelf 
V1I» ^he Cafe oj a Wound in the Cornea of 
the Eye being fuccefsfuUy cured by Afr.Tho. 
Baker, Surgeon to St, Thomas' j Hofpitaly 
and by him communicated to the Royal 
Society, in a Letter to Dr, Mortimer, 
R. S. Seer, 
Young Woman, about the Age of ly Years, 
on the Kov ember \7ii-, received a 
Wound juft in the Pupil of her right Eye, by the 
Spear of a common Fork. An Inflammation fol- 
lowed, with great Pain. The whole Eye appeared 
dark and turbid 5 and the Humours feemed confufed, 
and blended together. I opened a Vein in the Arm, 
and drew away 10 Ounces of Blood : I then wafhed 
the Eye with a Collyrium of Trochifei Albi Rhajts, 
and common Water, made Blood- warm j and drefled 
it with a Cataplafm of white Bread and Milk, with 
a little Saflfon in it. The next Day there appeared 
Your moji obedient 
humble Servant ^ 
John Ellicotc. 
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