536 Mr. Wardrop’s case of a lady born blind, who 
She drove in a carriage, on the fourteenth day, four miles 
on the Wandsworth road ; admired most the sky and the 
fields, noticed the trees, and likewise the river Thames as she 
crossed Vauxhall bridge. At this time it was bright sun- 
shine, and she said something dazzled her when she looked 
on the water. 
On the fifteenth day, being Sunday, she walked to a chapel 
at some distance, and now evidently saw more distinctly, but 
appeared more confused than when her sight was less perfect. 
The people passing on the pavement startled her; and once 
when a gentleman was going past her, who had a white 
waistcoat and a blue coat with yellow buttons, which the 
sunshine brought full in her view, she started so as to draw 
her brother, who was walking with her, off the pavement. 
She distinguished the clergyman moving his hands in the 
pulpit, and observed that he held something in them ; this 
was a white handkerchief. 
She went in a coach, on the sixteenth day, to pay a visit in 
a distant part of the town, and appeared much entertained 
with the bustle in the streets. On asking her how she saw 
on that day ? she answered, “ I see a great deal, if I could 
only tell what I do see ; but surely I am very stupid.” 
Nothing particular took place on the seventeenth day ; and 
when her brother asked her how she was ? she replied, “ I 
am well, and see better ; but don’t tease me with too many 
questions, till I have learned a little better how to make use 
of my eye. All that I can say is, that I am sure, from what 
I do see, a great change has taken place ; but I cannot de- 
scribe what I feel.” 
Eighteen days after the last operation had been performed, 
I attempted to ascertain by a few experiments her precise 
