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the tumor would be fufficient for the cure : Monf. 
Daviel therefore only cut away half the lid with the 
tumor ; with which he alfo took off a large quantity 
of hard white fat, and drelfed up the part as ufual j 
but in the progrefs the lid was turned outward, and 
then they refolved upon the total extirpation of the 
lid ; which, being obliged to depart from thence, he 
left to Monf. Maillot, who performed it with fuch 
fuccefs, that his cure was complete in fifteen days, 
without the leafl; deformity whatever. 
The 10th Obfervation is a cafe of the fame na- 
ture with the former, with this difference, that when 
he had taken off the tumor and under lid in the 
fame manner as ufual j the patient continued grow- 
ing well till the ninth day from the operation ; 
when Monf. Daviel perceived a fmall fungus in the 
middle of the tumor, which he touched with the 
lapis infernalis, which produced very ill effedts: the 
eye grew painful, the conjundive fwelledvery much, 
the wound, which was half healed up, opened afrefh, 
and grew ragged. This made him fet about cutting 
away all the bad flefh he could perceive, with the 
inequalities of the conjundive, which was much 
fwelled : he fcarified the cornea, and the inner fur- 
face of the upper lid, which was alfo greatly tume- 
fied, and even opened it on the upper furface. Thus, 
after having emptied the veffels well, he fomented 
the whole with a decodion of marfhmallows, mul- 
lein, violet-leaves, camomile- flowers, melilot, leaves 
and flowers of rofemary, thyme, lavender, rue, and 
marjoram, of each half a handful, in a fufficient 
quantity of water j to a quart of which he put a bit 
of camphire as big as a nut. The frequent applica- 
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