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She remained twenty-four hours without being 
dreffed ; was bled twice in the arm, after the opera- 
tion : I then drefl'ed her up with light doffils, arm’d 
with the linimentum Arcjei, and flie had not the leaft 
accident from the day of the operation to the ayth 
of the fame month, when flie was perfectly cured, 
without any deformity in her eye : and although the 
lid was cut away very high, the eye remained very- 
neat and well, performing its feveral functions pro- 
perly when I left Bourdeaux ; and the 13th of Au- 
guft 1742, having had an opportunity of taking a 
journey to that town, I faw the patient again, whom 
I found extremely well, feeing perfedliy with that 
eye : but what I found very lingular was, that the 
fkin of the lid defcended pretty lowj to the cornea, 
which it almoli: covered; fo that the whole globe 
was in a manner hid. We only obferved, that this 
lefembled a lid without hairs. 
Obfervation II. upon another cancerous tumor in 
the great angle of the eye. 
July 2, 1736. Margaret Combaucauty of Carca- 
ftone in Languedoc, lixty years old, had a cancerous 
tumor, for fixteen years, in the great angle of the 
right eye : it began by a little wart, which itched 
violently, and made her fcratch it very often, which 
fo irritated the tumor, that in a little time it became 
as large as a dried fig flatted, with its edges turn’d 
outward and callous. It reached from the commif- 
fure of the lower lid, an inch and half below it, even 
to the right ala of the nofe, which proved extremely 
troublefome to the woman. I found, after a flri(^ 
examination, that it adhered to the bone. She faid 
fhe tried all the remedies that fhe imagined would 
