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Excerpt from A System of Surgery, Vol. 4
Anatomifis have confidered the coats of the eye as numerous, but three only can be difiinétly traced y namely, the Sclerotic, the Choroid, and the Retina. The former has indeed been fuppofed to eonfifi of difi'erent coats, to all of which names have been appr'opriated, namely, The tunica albuginea, the cornea Opaca, cornea Incida, &c.; and even the choroid has been fuppofed to be formed of diffe rent tun'ics: But although a tedious mace Iation may feparate fome ofthefe parts in to different lamellae, the knife of the a natomifi is not able to do fo 3 and as di fiiné'tions of this kind can tend to no ufe ful purpofe, they ought not who retain.
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