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L. A j'econd Account of the new Method of 
opening the Cornea, for taking away the 
Cataradl \ by Samuel Sharp, Surgeon to 
Guy’j Hofpital, and F \ R. S. 
Read Nov. 22, I HAD the honour, laft April, to lay 
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before the Society a new method of 
opening the cornea, in order to take away the cata- 
radl j being intended as an improvement on Monlieur 
Daviel’s manner of doing that operation : and having 
now pradlifed it on feveral fubje&s, I here take the 
liberty to give a Ihort account of the fuccefs, with a few 
obfervations on the principal phenomena attending 
this operation ; to which I fhall add a defcription of a 
farther improvement of the operation itfelf. For a 
fuller view of the hi dory of thefe cafes, I have here 
fet down the ages of the patients, the dates of the 
days on which they underwent the operation, and the 
particular circumftanee of its being done on one or 
both eyes. 
Names. 
Age. 
Date. 
Eyes, 
A B 
5 i 
April 7 
1 
A C 
54 
April 1 6 
2 
A D 
70 
May 12 
2 
A E 
65 
June 6 
2 
A F 
6 5 
July 16 
2 
A G 
Auguft 8 
2 
AH 
48 
Sept, ip 
2 
A I 
64 
Sept. 19 
1 
AK 
67 
Sept. 19 
2 
A L 
58 
0 a. 4 
2 
AM 
47 
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