Meeting accidentally with a Man, by Profession a Farrier, whose Eyes look’d very odly, I questioned him about his Distemper; and found by his answers, that he had had Cataracts in both his Eyes, but either had them ill Couch’d, or had not behaved himself orderly afterwards. For there Seemed still to be ragged Films, that cover’d considerable portions of his Pupils; in so much that I somwhat wonder’d to see him go freely about, as he did, without requiring any body to help him, so much as up or down Stairs: and I hereupon asking him, whether he were able to Read in a large Print, he told me he was, with the help of his Cataract Spectacles, as they call them, which I doubting of, brought him a Book, whose Title Page he was not able to Read; this he Excus’d by saying that the place was too Lightsom, which tho’ it did not Seem to Others, yet, considering that it was about Noon, I caus’d the Room to be a little darken’d, and then perceived that indeed he could Read well Enough.
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