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The eye appeared to thefe gentlemen- as I have 
related : and upon Mr. Want’s prefling with his fin- 
ger on the pupil, the globe burft at the edge of the 
Iris , and difeharged pus. The extirpation of the 
eye was unanimoufly agreed upon, and immediately 
performed. 
Mr. Hopkins made a punClure with a lancet clofe 
to the external and fmall canthus of the eye, and 
then with a pair of crooked feiffars took off all the 
diftended globe clofe to the eye-lids. He then 
cleaned the cavity of the purulent humours, and 
filled it with foft lint, over which he applied bolfters 
dipped in warm red wine and water, and the mono - 
cuius bandage to keep on the whole drefiings. The 
lad was bled in the arm ; nitrous medicines, and ano- 
dynes, were preferibed, and a fuitable regimen. The 
fever, and inflammation of the eye, gradually de- 
creafed ; the fuppuration of the wound in few days 
was good, the diftended eye-lids contracted, and 
a cure was foon expedted. 
But on November the 7th the lad went to open 
the ftreet-door, and it being a cold and rainy even- 
ing, he quickly felt the bad effects of the cold wind, 
which drove the rain in upon him. That night the 
wound became again very painful, the eye-lids puffed 
up, and next day appeared much inflamed, as were 
all the contents of the orbit. Fungous excrefcences 
foon followed, and an intermittent fever. An emetic 
being improper, he was purged with rhubarb, and 
afterwards took the bark infufed in red wine. The 
fever was removed after fome time ; but the contents 
of the orbit continued increafing, and the fungous 
excrefcences became fo large and fpongy, as to be of 
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