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CASE II. 
Read June 23, Tl yTR, James L d, midlhipman 
17 3 ’ ▼ JL of his majefty’s fhip Liverpool, 
in a riot, December 10, 1762, was wounded in the 
left eye : a fmall fword entered in at the external an- 
gle, and palling quite through the eye, towards the 
balls, ftruck againft the inner part of the orbit. He 
fell down inftantaneoully fenfelels, with lofs of fpeech, 
and an hemiplegia of the oppofite lide : blood was im- 
mediately drawn, the texture of which was not lirong- 
ly cohering : the next morning he was found lying 
upon his back, with the right eye widely opened, 
and the pupil (though in a light room) confiderably 
dilated. This eye was incapable of difcerning ob- 
jects, never winking at the waving of the hand, or 
the clofe application of the finger j though fometimes 
it was convulfed. The left eye was extruded from its 
orbit, and enlarged to the lize of a pullet’s egg, though 
deftitute of all its humours : his pulfe beat at long in- 
tervals, with a lazy motion, and Hopped upon gentle 
preffure : the body was not feverilh, but preferved a na- 
tural heat, the paralytic lide, arm, and thigh excepted, 
which were livid, cold, and rigid ; the lancet was 
employed without exciting any fenfation, and blitters 
lay on feveral days without railing any vefications ; 
thefe benumbed parts were conftantly bedewed with 
clammy fweat. He was devoid of anxiety, or in- 
quietude, the powers of nature feemed to be almoft 
fufpended, and life to be carried on, only through 
the large organs and velfels. The functions of the 
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