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ing dung about the clofe : for in either cafe the im- 
petus of the blood muff have been fo violent, as to 
produce thofe effects. However, from the by dr oph- 
thalmia fucceeding the operation on John Law, the 
fungous excrefcence, and continual ferous difcharge 
during feveral months from the wound, it plainly 
appears, that an abundance of aqueous humour was 
dil'charged at firft by the diftenlion or laceration of 
the aqueous duds, and latterly for want of a con- 
traction of thofe veffels, and of the lymphatics, which 
were no longer of ufe. 
Both thefe cafes fhew the neceffity of inquiring 
particularly into the caufes of difeafes of the eyes, 
as well as of other parts of the body j for by barely 
attending to the fymptoms, the difeafe will not be 
removed, tho’ the fymptoms be alleviated. Bleeding, 
and moderate evacuations, would certainly have, at 
firff, decreafed the ten lion and pain, and affuaged 
the inflammation ; but both topical applications, and 
internal medicines, were properly to be adapted, and 
a luitable diet regulated. 
Not to mention the abfurd and impertinent abufe 
of empirics, what benefit could accrue, in both 
thefe cafes, from unCtuous, laxative, or emollient 
applications, from draftic and mercurial purges ? 
Tho’ fuch applications might be well intended, to 
take off the tenfion and inflammation ; yet, as 
the diftenlion of the blood-veffels only increafed 
gradually, as the globe of the eye was enlarged j 
fo whatever application relaxed the coats of the eye, 
muff infallibly ffretch out the veffels yet farther, 
and caufe a greater pain and inflammation ; which 
draffic and mercurial purges would alfo increafe. 
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