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becomes flaccid, upon the iffue of the aqueous hu-» 
mour, and renders the operation tedious and embar- 
rafling, as I myfelf have found by experience in one 
patient, on whom I performed the inciflon of the 
cornea with a pair of fciffars, as recommended by 
Monf Daviel. 
XXV. Experiments by Francis Hume, M. ZX 
on Fifli and Flefh. preferred in Lime-water, 
communicated by John Clephane, M. D. 
F. R. S. 
Read May 3, TTTITHa defign to find out how 
*753- Vv long I could keep fifh and flefh 
fit to eat in lime-water, I put two haddocks, and a 
pound of beef, in different pots full of lime-water, 
and corked them well. They flood in our cellar 1 8 
days. 
I then took out one of the fifh : it was fweet, 
found, and firm ; I boiled one part of it, and I broiled 
the other : it eat well, and had not the leaft tafte of 
lime-water ; but was not juft fo firm as a frefh fifh. 
But when I open’d the beef-pot, to my great furprize, 
it flunk abominably. 
I poured the lime-water from both pots, and put 
in frefh lime-water. This flood 4 weeks longer; the 
remaining fifh was quite frefh, and a little fwelled, 
but, when I boil’d it, diffolved to a jelly. The flefh 
was very putrid. 
Thus lime-water appears to preferve fifh, but not 
flefh. 
X 2 
Dr. 
