It may be worth Observing, How long The better sort of Cataracts, tho’ they hinder Sight for a time, as a thick Curtain drawn cross the Pupil, yet may remain in the Eye, without Spoiling the Optic Nerve or hindring Vision when once the Cataract is remov’d; Of which I remember, among other Instances, I took notice in the Case of a Woman, who told me she had Cataracts in her Eyes so long, that she was brought a Bed of Six Children consecutively, without being able to See any one of them, till after she was Cur’d by having the Cataracts Couched. But then she saw so well, that with Spectacles she could read in a portable Bible of a small Print. And divers considerable Persons of my Acquaintance saw One of Eighteen years Old, born with Cataracts in both her Eyes, Who not naturally Wanting the Faculty of Seeing, tho’ thus Hinder’d of the Exercise of it, had been so happily Couched, as afterwards to have the benefit of Sight in them both.
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