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Interesting Surgical (Operation.
FRANCIS D. SHAW, Esq.
Formerly of Eadon, Pennsylvania,
having for upwards of two years
been deprived of fight by Cataraft,
on the 26th ult. submitted himfelf
to an operation on one of his eyes,
performed by Dr. Pnyfick, which
succeeded in an indantaneous and
wonderful manner.
The method of operation is of
own invention, and “ confilts,’
(as he expresses himfelf in a com
munication to Dr. Pnyfick,) ‘in the
fpecffie application of a familiar,
♦hough potent principle in natural
philosophy by means of mechanism
of the moll Simple conftruftion.’
i’he advantages of it are, that it
is much less difficult than that by
deprtflion or extrftion, is neither
te.routs, painful or hazardous, is
rf* liable to be succeeded by vio
lent inflamation, and in certainty
arid celerity, is in every refpeft pre
ftn abie to Dr A lam’s method of
punduringthe rapfule. so much in
vogue at present, but which* in this
city lias not been iiuifbnnlv fuccefs
fU i
l’ii patient exhibited an unuiu
al degree of ior ituds. under his af
fl :f ? on ; and. b-.ffi.ks a tedious lali
was three times very fki!ful
ly operated upon by Dr Dor fey,
accorr tv Dr. Adam’s method
above memuoned, without experi
kb; i iea/t relief, or having
*. h.;i and Si being eefto
-7r . - 0 > -
J
■A:’ • giC'li •; >-'tl ctions
••• his tit. -.’-m aa idea
.t s u k : • :£tmg a
•p : ‘ • curt, by ;.rg away
t itaradand completely empty
ing the capsule of the lens. This
plan he communicated to several
profeffional gentiemeft, but receiv
ed horn them little or no encou
ragement —convinced, however, of
the practicability of his plan, he
persevered in it, and procured seve
ral instruments made under his own
direction by an ingenious artifl,
[though himfelf unable to fee
them] and with them tried fre
quent experiments on different sub
stances as familiar as possible to that
of the cataract, with such success as
to afford the moll flattering prof
peft.
(r A detailed account of his plan
was communicated to Dr. Pnyfick,
in November iaft, and after much
urgent solicitation, he prevailed on
that gentleman to attempt it, very
freely offering himfelf as the firft
subject of the experiment. Dr.
Phyiic after fome previous prepara
tion, with his ufualfkill and promp
titude, completely removed every
vellige of the cataract, and the pa
tic, ’ was once more restored to
iij.h: , which gave him the more fa
•nsfa&x n, as it was owing to his
own ingenuity and perseverance.—-
At this time [five days fince] the
eye appears rapidly recovering
but little inflamation is difeovera
ble, owing to judicious treatment,
previous to. as wed as subsequent
to the operation, and as far as he
THE FRIEND AND MONITOR.
PUBLISHED (weekly) BY JOHN K. M. CHARLTON.
IPASUINGTON, (Geo.) — FRIDAY, ; APRIL 23, 1815.
has indulged himfelf, his fight is as
completely restored as previous to
the firft appearance of the disease.
ihis invention, which deserves
to be placed on a Ifevel with Dr.
i Jenner’s great difeovery of Vaccin
| ation, will form anew aera in the
annals of Surgery, aad will no
doubt be the means of restoring
that moft ufeful of our feculties to
many who now suppose tliemfelves
doomed to a life of darknefg. Mr.
Shaw is fully of opinion, thatittnay
| be advantageously used in almost
every state of the cataraft He
j intends to procure from the proper
‘■ authority a patent for his invention,
and is justly entitled to all the ad
vantage which his ufeful and ingen
ious difeovery merits, more parti
cularly as he has been under the
necefiity of abandoning a lucrative
practice at the bar, which it may
never be in his power to regain.
M.
March 31, 1815.
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Alexandria , March 22.
Extract cj a letter from v ■entlemm
in Washington to A/• da
ted March 17, Ia 5
“The p refill r of buiEUfe has
thus long
your enquirie: troonth g ;he na
tional debt. navy , c . the in
ternal improvements or rationed or
acceiorafi’d lay i r war.. Hie fame
cau'e vriil r . v prevent drift
accuracy in ‘my ‘taounents; but
‘!,e e will be uj material inaccura
cy in them Ihe comments on the
fafts, you mud youtfelffupply.
On the fird of Janu
ary, 1790, shortly
after the com
mencement of gen.
Wafliirigton’s ad
minidration, the
national debt was o 72,233,301
At the commence
ment of Mr. Ad
ams’ adminidrati
on in 1797, the
public debt having
increased upwards
of eight millions
was 80,934,023
At the commence
ment of Mr. Jef
ferfon’sadminiftra-
tion, in 1801, the
debt amounted to 82,000,167
At the commence
ment of Mr. Mad
i Ton’s administrati
on, in 1809, the
debt having been
diminished or paid
off by the republi
cans to the amount
of nearly thirty
millions, was only 53,782,200 ,
During Mr. Madi
son’s administrati
on, about twelve
millions more of
the debt have been
paid off and the
then national debt
at this time a
mounts only to 39,905,183 |
It appears that while the federal
administration increased the pub
lic debt,, the republicans have exttn
VIRTUE, LIBERTY, AND SCIENCE.
guished more than forty-two millions
• of it, besides having purchased Lou
isiana, the brilliant theatre of Ame
rican glory, and destined to be the
great emporium of the western com
merce and wealth.
The debt created by
the war, is afeer
tained at the Trea
sury amounts to 63,733,122
But this happened in a mod
momentous and extendve war of
l nearly three years duration, against
| all the power of the Britilh empire*
a great part of the time. It is a
left, too, worthy of remark, and
which shows the econenvy of repub-,
licans, that the expense of Great
Britain in the year 1813, a foiitary
12 months, were 455 millions of
dollars, more than fix times the
amount of the whole expenses of
our three years war !
But this is not all. When the
I war Commenced, we had a navy
of only 20 vu' r els of,all sizes be
[ low 60 gun {hips; we had none
I of that class; nor any 74’s. Now,
’ we have a navy of eighty - one ships ,
among them are three 74’s nearly
ready for sea ; two go gun fliips at
Sackett’s Harbor ; one 60 gun
fiiip there, one frigate and fourteen
other {hips ; ten fine frigates and
thirty one corvettes, Hoops, brigs
and ketches ready for sea; besides
nineteen vefTels of war on lakes
Erie and Champlain, a great part
of them the splendid trophies af the
two splendid naval viftorfes on
; those lakes. It is to be observed,
i that the lake fleets in the possible
| event of anew war being provoked
by England, will be of as much
importance as the squadrons of the
ocean.
It is impoflible justly to appreci
ate the improvements occasioned or
accelerated by the war. In the An
gle article of domedic manufac
tures alone, the. war has added in
solid wealth to the nation, ten times
the amount or the expenses which
that war produced to the Treasury-
We can now supply ourselves, if
we had a mind to flop importations,
with all the necefiaries and many
of the comforts and luxuries of
life, from our domedic factories.
In addition to all this, we have
gained in Europe a name in arms
and valor which will prove to be
our greeted security against future
aggrefiions, and command the ad
miration of mankind to the latest
period of time. We have had our
national charafter drengthened and
elevated ; our union and republican
institutions consolidated and con- ;
firmed. Tbefe advantages, that
wealth, this charafter and reputa
tion, have been gained and secured j
under the auspices of a Madison j
and a JefFerfon.
Alley.ardria Herald.
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ENGLISH CREDULITY.
( Cojnpilcdfrom History.)
In the year 1712, Mr. vV hi ft on
having calculated the return of a
comet, which was to make its ap
pearance or Wednesday, the 14-th
of Oftober, at five minutes after j
five in the. morning, gave notice
[Payable half yecml .
nr—imnri . .aj
, to the public anccordingly with
| the terrifying addition, that a total
desolution of the earth by fire> was to
: take place on Friday following -
’ The reputation of Mr. Whiiton
long maintained in England, both
as a divine and a philosopher, left
but little or no doubt with the pop
ulace as to the truth of his predic
tion. Several ludicrous events
now took place. A number of
persons in and about London,
1 seized all the barges and boats they
1 could lay hands on in the Thames,
i very rationally concluding, that
i when the conflagration took place
1 there would be mod fafety on the
water—a gentleman who had ne
glefted family prayer for more than
five-years, informed his wife that
it was his determination to refuine
that laudable praftice the fame
| evening; but his wife having en
gaged a ball at the house, persuad
ed her husband to put it off’till
; they saw whether the comet appear
ed or not—The South Sea dock
immediately fell to five percent.—*
India to 11, and the captain of 5.
Dutch fliip threw all his powder in
! to the river, that his {hip might not
be endangered.
The next morning, howeyef, the
comet appeared according to the
prediction, and before noon the be
lief was universal, that the day of
judgement was at hand. About,
this time 123 clergymen were fer
ried over to Lambeth, it was said
to petition that a fliort prayer might
be penned and ordered, there be
ing none in the church,fervice on
occasion—that maids of honor
burnt their colleftion of plays and
novels, and went to the bookfeilers
to buy each of them a bibie, and
bishop Taylor’s holy living and dy
ing—the run on the bank was so
great, that all hands were employ
ed from morning till night difeount
irig notes and handing out fpecie—
on Fhurfday, considerably more
than 7000 kept midreffcs were le
gally married in the face of several
congregations and to crown the
farce Sir Gilbert Heathcote, at that
time direftor of the bank, ilTued
orders to all the fire officers of Lon
don, requiring them <c to keep a
good look out and have a particu
lar eye on the bank of England!!’ ?
’ Pet. Courier.
Terrible Alarm ! On the 25th
of January, the kingdom of Great
Britain was suddenly thrown into
a date ol alarm and codernalion
never equalled, perhaps, since the
famous gun-powder plot. Their
’ own papers mention admiralty dis
’ patches ! seventy fours suddenly man
;7l cd! squadrons instantly sailing !
! Iffc. IFc. and private letters may
| pofiibly tell us of alarm guns ! tbs
\ royal family retired to the Tveer for
safety! hot press on the Thames !
funds sinking ! wonder rising ! &c.
&c. Because “Late on Monday
evening, dispatches were received
at the admiralty, communicatinr
the. IMPORTANT INFORMATION
that two American “ cock-boats ’•
had sailed 1
Columbian^
[Number 11.
