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bom with Cataracts in their Eyes. 
seemed to touch my eye but he could not tell its shape. He 
went to bed, and took an opiate draught: the pain in his eye 
lasted about an hour, after which he fell asleep. The whole of 
that day the light was distressing to his eye, so that he could 
not bear the least exposure to it. 
On the 2 2d the eye-lids were opened to examine the eye. 
The light was less offensive. He said he saw my head, which 
touched his eye. There was so much inflammation on the 
eye-ball, that a leech was applied to the temple, and the 
common means for removing inflammation were used. 
On the 23d the eye was less inflamed, and he could bear 
a weak light. The pupil was of an irregular figure, and the 
wounded cornea had not united with a smooth surface. He 
said he could see several gentlemen round him, but could not 
describe their figure. My face, while I was looking at his 
eye, he said was round and red. 
On the 25th the inflammation had subsided, but on the 
27th returned, and continued notwithstanding different means 
were employed for its removal, till the 1st of August, when 
it was almost entirely gone. On the 4th the eye was appa- 
rently so well that an attempt was made in the presence of 
Mr. Cavendish and Dr. Wollaston to ascertain its powers 
of vision ; but it was so weak that it became necessary to 
shade the glare of light by hanging a white cloth before the 
window. The least exertion fatigued the eye, and the cicatrix 
on the cornea, to which the iris had become attached, drew it 
down so as considerably to diminish the pupil. From these 
circumstances nothing could be satisfactorily made out re- 
specting the boy’s vision. On the 11th a second attempt was 
made in the presence of Mr. Cavend-ish, but the pupil conti- 
