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Screw ; and fo, ‘by gradually forcing it more and 
more, and keeping this Bandage conftantly applied 
Day and Night, in about twenty Days the Eye was 
brought intirely into its Place, fo as to remain there 
cf itfelf, had all its regular Motions every Way, and 
the Patient faw with that Eye as well as with the 
other. 
This Patient, after the Cure, was fhewn to the 
Phyficians that had been prefent at the Operation, 
and to others the mold eminent of the Faculty. In 
the Morning, when I ufed to take off the Bandage, 
I could obferve that Side of the Globe which the 
Plate bore upon confiderably flatten’d, and yet not 
attended with any Pain, or bad Confequence. In 
about a Month the Wound was quite healed up. 
A fpongy Carnofity had grown all along the Inftde of 
the lower Eyelid, which, being long over ftretched by 
the Tumour, was fo relaxed, thar, after the Opera- 
tion, it turned inflde-out, and occafioned that Dif- 
order which is called Effropion: The upper Eyelid 
having been very much extended for fo many Years 
by the Globe, upon the Eye returning to its Place, 
was fo relaxed, that its Cartilage, on the contrary, 
turned inwards,- whereby the Cilia o'r Hairs upon 
its Borders rubb’d againft the Globe of the Eye, and 
occafion’d the Difeafe commonly call’d Trichiajis. 
Tor the Cure of the Ectropion , I palled a crooked 
Needle thro’ the Middle of the Carnofltv, and raifing 
it by the Thread, I cut it off with the Sciflars, I 
afterwards touched the Inftde of the Eye lid with the 
lunar Cauftic, in order to deflroy what remained of 
the Carnofity ; and, giving the Efchar Time to throw 
off, I repeated the fame twice or thrice, by which the 
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