AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE, CAUSE and CURE OF A SINGULAR DISEASE OF THE E Y E S,
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Hitherto Unknown, and yet Common, Produced by the Use of CERTAIN MERCURIAL PREPARATIONS.
By J. P. MARAT, M.D.
London: Printed for W. Nicoll, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and J. Williams, in Fleet Street. (Price One Shilling, Sewed.)
TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
Gentlemen,
THIS is not a Dedication: such a Matter of Form I have ever thought beneath the Dignity of Philosophy. My Idea hereby is purely (after the Example of communicative Naturalists, proud of contributing to the Cabinets of the Curious any rare Fossil, or Article of the Study of Nature) to intreat that, in your immense Collection of Facts, Experiments and Researches, you will permit me to ask of you a small Nook for an Observation of a Phænomenon in the Animal Oeconomy: a singular Phænomenon, which has hitherto escaped the Attention of Physiologers, and which, I presume, is too curious not to excite your Attention. If, when the Occasion may present itself, any of the Members of your Society would be pleased to amuse themselves with verifying, by Dissections, the Elucidation of it, which is offered in the following Sheets, it might not, perhaps, be a regrettable Employ of Time.
I am, with the most perfect Respect, Gentlemen Your most humble And most obedient Servant, J. P. MARAT.
Church-Street, Soho, January 1st, 1776.