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or two, and even took eight ounces of blood from 
the temporal artery. But the eye being 'greatly en- 
larged, and of fo terrible an appearance,’ after all 
our endeavours for eight or ten months, I judged her 
difeafe to be a Carcinoma, and therefore propofed 
cutting out the whole eye as the only remedy. 
Several fkilful furgeons were confulted, and it 
was agreed to defer the operation, and truft to na- 
ture ; though the was in that miferable condition ; 
but at length her eye becoming much greater, and 
her pain being increafed, I refolved upon the opera- 
tion, left the bones of the orbit might become ca- 
rious. 
Thus, having called in that eminent and famous 
phyftcian Dodtor Huxham, with fome of the moft 
Ikilful furgeons of this place, I performed the ope-^ 
ration in the following manner j viz. The tumor was 
fo very large, and the upper lid fo diftended, that I 
v/as obliged hrft to divide the orbicular mufcle at 
the inner Canthus; and there began my incifion 
round the upper part of the tumor, for the more 
convenient ufe of my knife. I had not cut deep 
when a great quantity of pus, like lymph, flow’d out 
upon me, with great force, like a fountain, and the 
tumor fubfided a good deal: but purfuing the ope- 
ration, I found a large cift, which filled the whole 
orbit behind the eye j and fo part of the cift was left 
to flough off\with the dreffings. The whole eye 
being cut out, I filled the wound with lint, ^c. and 
in three days I removed the dreffings, together with 
a great quantity of fanies, which were daily renew’d, 
and the part of, the cift, which was left behind. 
Hough’d off the fecond day. The cure went on with 
fuccefs, 
