. A system of surgery (Volume 2) . op-eration be in the ftate of the raoft perfect dilatation ;for which purpofe, after the incifion of the cornea andthe opening of the capfule of the chryftalline are com-pleted, a dark cloth or curtain fhould be placed be-,tween the eye and the light, to be removed on thelens palling out. Jn a ^ew inllances of cataract,., the caufe of opacityis found to be, not in the lens ifcfelf, but in its this is the cafe, extracting the cataract anfwersno good purpofe, as the opacity remains equally ftrongafter as before the operation. Some authors havethere


. A system of surgery (Volume 2) . op-eration be in the ftate of the raoft perfect dilatation ;for which purpofe, after the incifion of the cornea andthe opening of the capfule of the chryftalline are com-pleted, a dark cloth or curtain fhould be placed be-,tween the eye and the light, to be removed on thelens palling out. Jn a ^ew inllances of cataract,., the caufe of opacityis found to be, not in the lens ifcfelf, but in its this is the cafe, extracting the cataract anfwersno good purpofe, as the opacity remains equally ftrongafter as before the operation. Some authors havetherefore advifed our attempting, in fuch circumftanG-es, to remove the opake capfule by forceps, and otherinftiuments pafled through the pupil; but this caunevtr be accomplished without much rifle of injuringthe iris and other parts of the eye : fo that it is morelikely to do harm than to produce any this reafon I would rather advife an operator totrull to time and an autiphiogiitic regimen, for the re-moval FLAT B XXXIV. K 1 (,. 2


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