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fur a myrrh# . On the 23d, upon his removing the 
dreffings, he faw the cyft loofe and collapfed ; which 
he extracted with his forceps, without the lead; diffi- 
culty, or pain to his patient. The fungus daily- 
wafted afterwards, the wound digefted well, and the 
lad was intirely cured on the 7th of Auguft. 
His right eye is perfectly ftrong, and he has been 
free from complaint ever lince. The remainder of 
the coats of the eye, and of the mufcles, bear up 
the eye-lids, that when uncovered he only feems to 
have clofed the left eye : however, he has wore all 
the winter a back patch over it, to guard againft 
frefh cold. 
The cyft, when firft taken away, meafured three 
inches and half in length, one inch and half in di- 
ameter, and contained a large cup-full of water. It 
appeared to be the tunica filer otica , was of a clear 
pellucid white, and of fo delicate a texture, as fcarce 
to admit of being touched without tearing ; and 
when dried with all poffible care, became fo brittle, 
that Mr. Hopkins could hardly preferve it in the 
manner I now fend it. 
REMARKS. 
In both Sufannah Earle and John Law’s cafes, the 
eye was diftended by the accumulation of the aqueous 
humour, feparated in great quantity by the repeated 
{training of the blood-veflels in the whooping cough, 
which might gradually relax and enlarge the aqueous 
duds of Sufannah Earle’s eye ; and poffibly by the 
rupture of thofe duds, and of fome blood-veflels, at 
the time John Law exerted himfelf violently in beat- 
