A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by John Cunningham Saunders ... to which are addded, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by ... J.R. Farre.

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1816
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    valuable life was closed, it must be ad- mitted that he was not inattentive to that service, as he had published during this period a work on the Anatomy and Dis- eases of the Ear, and an Essay on Inflam- mation of the Iris, as a specimen of a series which he meant to communicate on the diseases of the eye. In the course of this year his enquiries on the congenital cataract were nearly concluded, and after the anatomical lectures had closed, he com- menced the manuscript of his intended publication. He wrote the Essay on In- flammation of the Conjunctiva in Infants, and on the Cure of the Inversion of the upper Eye*lid by excision of the Tarsus, which together with the Essay on Inflam- mation of the Iris, form the three first chapters of the following work. But he was not enabled even to correct what he had written. The attacks of the disease which proved fatal to him were now so frequent, the pain of his head was so ex- cruciating, and in his intervals of ease he was so much deprived of that energy of mind which had been natural to him, that although he struggled to redeem his pledge.