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fuccefs, and, in a month from the operation, was 
completed j and ihe remains free from pain from 
that time to this. 
P. S. I muft mention what feemed remarkable 
upon the cafe : when the woman was put to bed, we 
came to obferve the date of the eye, which appear’d 
a little bigger than the other j and having cut through 
it, we found the humours very much confufed : the 
aqueous humour was not fo clear as ufual, the 
cryftalline lefs folid and tranfparent, and the vitreous 
almoft reduced to a liquid ftate. The cift was very 
ftrong and elaftic, and had a cavity large enough to 
contain a large hen’s egg. 
V. Supplement to the Account of a diftem— 
pered Shiny publijhed in the ^2 \th Num- 
ber of the Philofophical Tranfadlions. By - . 
Mr. Henry Baker, F. R. S^ 
Read Jan. 23, X N the year 1731, a lad, fourteen years 
’‘ 755 - Jl^ of age, was brought by his father 
from Eufron-Hall, in Suffolk, and fhewn to the 
Royal Society, on account of his having a cuticular 
diforder, of a different kind from any mentioned in 
the hiftories- of difeafes. 
The extraordinary cafe of this boy was drawn up 
by Mr. John Machin, at that time one of the Secre- 
taries of the Royal Society, and was publifhed in 
the Philofophical Tranfadions, 424. 
