A Gentleman, having in a quarrel receiv’d a Stroke on one Side of his Head, which knock’d him down, found afterwards a great Weakness and dimness in his Eyes; into which when I look’d attentively, I plainly discern’d, that tho’ above one half of his Pupil was yet uncover’d, so that when he look’d downwards, he could See well enough with That Eye, yet there was grown in it no less than two Cataracts, which, when I look’d on them attentively, and in a good Light, I could manifestly perceive to be Distinct; the One of them seeming to be smooth spread, as if its Circular Edge adher’d closely to the inside of the Eye; and the Other, that seem’d not altogether of the same Colour, hanging loosely, and as it were a Rag, at some distance above it. What afterwards became of this Gedtleman I could not learn, tho’ I would gladly have done it; Two Cataracts at a time in one Eye being some what Extraordinary.
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