He mentions likewise the heats to have been rather more than usual in that country this summer; and particularly on the 9th of August his thermometer (which is hung on the outside of his house on the north aspect) was at 97, by Fahrenheit’s graduation, and some other days as high as 94 or 95. I am, SIR, Your most obedient humble Servant, Wm. Fauquier. Jermyn street, 18 October, 1758. CI. _An Account of an extraordinary Case of a diseased Eye; In a Letter to_ Matthew Maty, _M. D. F.R.S. By_ Daniel Peter Layard, _M. D. F.R.S._ [Read Nov. 9. 1758.] Huntingdon, 20th May, 1758. Dear Sir, IN October 1755. I communicated to you, and you inserted in the last volume of your _Journal Britannique_, the case of Susannah Earle, of Hemmingford-Grey in this County, who, in consequence of the whooping cough, was afflicted with a protruded eye. The case I now send you, somewhat similar to that young girl’s in its first appearance and progress, but by accident attended with a second disease, will perhaps deserve your attention, and not seem unworthy of being presented to the Royal Society. John Law, of Fenny-Stanton, also in the County of Huntingdon, a strong and robust lad, thirteen years and six months old, in Easter week 1756, beating dung about a close with unusual force, on a sudden felt a violent pain in his left eye. The pain increased, an inflammation ensued, and the eye grew daily larger. The poor boy’s mother followed the directions, which she received, without the least benefit to her child, after having, besides other expences, been defrauded by a quack of two guineas; a great sum for a poor cottager! The widow Law, in her distress, heard of Susannah Earl’s cure. She went to see her; and determined to bring her son to Huntingdon, for Mr. Hopkins’s assistance. Accordingly, October the 7th 1756, she came to Mr. Daniel Hopkins, surgeon, in this town; and having desired my opinion, we both examined the eye together. The left eye was protruded out of its orbit, and hung down over the cheek to the upper lip. The coats were greatly discoloured, all the vessels turgid, the sight totally lost, and the humours appeared like fluctuating pus. We saw the necessity of an immediate extirpation, to save the right eye, already greatly inflamed; and having apprized the mother and boy of the state the eye was in, a consultation was desired with two surgeons of St. Ives. Mr. Dawkes, who was present with Mr. Skeeles at Susannah Earle’s operation, being dead since that time, Mr. Thomas Skeeles and Mr. Thomas Want very charitably met Mr. Hopkins and me the next day, October the 8th, at the widow Law’s cottage.