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inftrument, and who, feeing that the ulcer, which 
v/as the refult of the operation, did not heal ^ but 
on the contrary made great progrefs in its erofion, 
and became callous, he touched it with lapis infer- 
nalis • and lometimes with a liquid cauflic : which fo 
much the more increafed the evil, and made her re- 
folve to fuffer no more applications, becaufe, all that 
had been tried, made her vyorfe and worfe. She 
was now a long time in this hate, when I was called 
to confult with Meffieurs Doiiafan, Caudole, and 
Senis, phyhcians of note in the fame town, and with 
Monfieur Cohade, furgeon major of the hofpital ; 
who, having examined the cafe, agreed with me, 
that there was no other method to be taken but the 
operation, not only to fave the eye, but to prevent 
an incurable cancer, which threatened her life; 
whilh it had already made great progrefs under the 
eye-lid ; and it was much to be feared that it would 
fpread into the very eye, and even over the whole 
face. Then the operation would be fruitlefs, and 
the patient would fuher the lofs of the ufe of that 
eye, and perhaps of her life. Wherefore I did not 
hefitate to propofe the total extirpation of the lid : 
my propofal was approved of by all, as the only 
method ot faving the eye ; and the operation was as 
follows : 
I paffed a crooked needle, with a wax’d thread, 
under the lid, by which I fufpended and drew up 
the lid and tumor, which I cut off with my crook’d 
feiffars, as much as I could under the orbit, fepa- 
rating the whole to the divifion of the lids ; a fmall 
haemorrhage enfued, but was foon flopped with dry 
lint, and a dry comprefs and bandage. 
She 
