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XXIV. A Defcription of a new Method of 
opening the Cornea, in order to extraB the 
cryftalline Humour; by Mr. Samuel Sharp, 
Surgeon to Guy’s Hofpital, and F. R. S. 
Read April i:,rpHE operation of di (charging the 
17 Si- cryftalline humour from the eye, 
for the cure of that fpecies of blindnefs call d a cata- 
raCt, was a few years (ince invented by Monf. Daviel, 
who has perform’d it on great numbers of patients, and 
continues ftill to praCtife it with remarkable fuccefs, 
as I have lately learned from unqueftionable au- 
thority Suppoling it therefore admitted, that the 
extraction of the cryftalline humour has been found 
by experience to be a uleful method of cure, 1 heie 
take the liberty of laying before the Society a new 
manner of making the incihon of the cornea, by 
by which, I flatter myfelf, Monf. Daviel s opeiatioii 
will be very much Shorten'd, the patient will fufter 
lefs pain, and every fkilful operator will be equal to 
the undertaking. 
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* Mr. Morand, perpetual Secretary 
at Paris. 
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of the Academy of Surgery 
