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Obfervation 6 , of a cancerous tumor upon the 
great angle of the right eye of a woman at Mar- 
feilles, of feventy years old. This he treated exadlly 
in the fame manner, and flae was cure.d in twenty 
days. 
The 7th Obfervation mentions another cancerous 
tumor upon the nofe, and its cartilage, of a gentle- 
man, which is circumftantially the fame with the 
former : it was cured in live days. After this cafe 
he makes this conclulion : that from all that has 
been already faid, it is plain, that the feat of the can- 
cers of the eye-lids, nofe, and other neighbouring 
parts, is abfolutely in the periofteum and perichon- 
drium, as well as the fat ; and that there can be no 
hopes of a cure without taking off thefe membranes, 
the fat, and even any parts of the very cartilages 
that may be contaminated : but that in this manner 
they are as curable as cancers upon other parts of the 
body, notwithftanding what all oculifts have faid to 
the contrary. 
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The 8th Obfervation is upon a cancer upon the 
lower eye-lid of a woman, cured in the fanie man- 
ner. 
The 9th Obfervation treats of a cancer, as big as 
a large filbert, in the angle, and upon the lower lid 
of the eye, of a gentleman j which began by a fmall 
ti bercle in the angle, and was pulled off, and grew 
again feveral times. Monfieur Daviel was confulted, 
in the prefence of another furgeon, Monfieur Maillot, 
and declared for taking the tumor and eye-lid intirely 
off ; making this prognoftic, that if any part was left 
behind, the eye would be deformed and flaring; 
but the other furgeon thought, that half the lid with 
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