Excerpt from A Dissertation, Read Before the Massachusetts Medical Society, on the Importance and Manner of Detecting Deep Seated MatterBy one, we are informed that removing the Opaque lens wholly from the eye, through the pupil, is the best method of relieving the difficulty. Ano ther, with perhaps equal experience and sincerity, will tell you that pressing down the lens from its nidus is the better mode, whilst a third asserts, with unbounded confidence, that only poking and lacerating the sight of the eye is the most humane and successful - thus leaving this delicate organ, with the vague expectation, that the inherent pow ers of kind nature will lend their aid, to give suc cess to this uncertain procedure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.