Observations and cases relating to the operation for artificial pupil; in a letter from Mr. Maunoir of Geneva, to Professor Scarpa of Pavia, with the professor's answer / communicated by Dr. Marcet.

  • Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822.
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[1816]
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    indebted to you for one of the greatest enjoyments which can be experienced ; that of creating, as it were, the faculty of sight, in a person whom time had not yet accustomed to the privation of a sense so precious, and who at the same time had lost nearly every hope of ever recovering it. I am indebted to you also for other, and still greater obligations. The charm of your letters, the friend- ship and esteem with which you honour me, and the excellence of your instructions have been to me the most powerful stimulants. You make me love my profession with greater ardour, and excite in my mind the livehest desire of extending its limits. I transcribe for you in the words of the Marquis himself, the following account of the origin ot his misfortune; the most trifling circumstances relative to this case cannot but be highly interesting. « In the severe winter of 1784, I was first at- tacked by an inflammation in both my eyes, which prevented me from performing my military duty:: for five weeks I had recourse to the following re^ medies: bhsters on the nape of the neck, footbaths,, whites of eggs applied to the ^eyes, &c. In No- vember, 1796, my sight was affected by a second 'inflammation. I had been wounded about thiS time.' and was copiously blooded to remove a difficulty o) •^sbeech caused by the eftects of the wound^ whi^H was received in the stomach, grazing the left riba Finding myself in the course of the winter affecter- with an incessant stammering, the bleedings wen