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found, that, if I exerted more force, I fliould foon 
evacuate all the vitreous humour. It was evident, 
by the great diftance of the cataradt behind the iris’, 
that this difappointment did not arife from an adhe- 
non to the iris : however, I had immediately re- 
courfe to the experiment of cutting through the cap- 
fula with the point of my knife ; hoping, by that 
means, to have fet free the cryftalline, but it gave 
me no affiftance. I then palled the curette (a little 
fcoop) through the pupil, and turn’d it feveral times 
round, in expectation of breaking the capfula ; but 
found not the lead; refinance to my inftruments; 
fo that both operations proved ineffectual ; the cir- 
cumftances being exactly the fame in each eye. 
I have, in couching, met with cataracts of this 
nature j but I had no apprehenfion that I could not 
have difchaiged, by the wound of the cornea, the 
matter of a cataract, in however fluid a date it might 
prove. ° 
Of all the ip there was not one, that efcaped an 
inflammation ; whereas, after couching, there are great 
numbers, who have neither inflammation nor pain. 
But it is to be remarked, that, notwithdanding the 
violent inflammation, which fometimes enfues after 
the incifion of the coinea, even to an enlargement of 
the eyelids, and vefication of the tunica conjunctiva , 
the patient complains rather of a tendernefs of the 
eye, upon touching it, than of pain 5 being generally 
exempt from thofe dreadful dartings in the head, 
which, for the mod part, accompany an inflamma- 
tion after couching. And I believe I may affert, 
that none fuffer d very much in that particular, ex- 
cept 
