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tention, and not feem unworthy of being prefented 
to the Royal Society. 
John Law, of Fenny-Stanton, alfo in the County 
of Huntingdon, a drong and robud lad, thirteen 
years and lix months old, in Eader week 1756, 
beating dung about a clofe with unufual force, on a 
fudden felt a violent pain in his left eye. The pain 
increafed, an inflammation enfued, and the eye grew 
daily larger. The poor boy’s mother followed the 
directions, which fhe received, without the lead; be- 
nefit to her child, after having, befides other ex- 
pellees, been defrauded by a quack of two guineas ; 
a great fum for a poor cottager ! 
The widow Law, in her didrefs, heard of Su- 
fannah Earl’s cure. She went to fee her j and deter- 
mined to bring her fon to Huntingdon, for Mr. Hop- 
kins’s aflidance. Accordingly, October the 7th 1756, 
die came to Mr. Daniel Hopkins, furgeon, in this 
town ; and having defired my opinion, we both 
examined the eye together. 
The left eye was protruded out of its orbit, and 
hung^ down over the cheek to the upper lip. The 
coats were greatly difcoloured, all the vefiels turgid, 
the light totally lod, and the humours appeared like 
fluctuating pus. We faw the necedity of an im- 
mediate extirpation, to fave the right eye, already 
greatly inflamed ; and having apprized the mother 
and boy of the date the eye was in, a confultation 
was defired with two furgeons of St. Ives. Mr. 
Dawkes, who was prefent with Mr. Skeeles at Su- 
lannah Earle’s operation, being dead fince that time, 
Mr. Thomas Skeeles and Mr. Thomas Want very 
charitably met Mr. Hopkins and me the next day, 
OClober the 8th, at the widow Law’s cottage. 
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