" Eventually the boy was brought to London for the purpose of ascertaining whether something might be done by an oculist for the restoration of his sight.

Untitled drawing depicting oculist with fancy chart.

But a List of Particulars would swell my Letter beyond its Bounds, what I have said being sufficient to comfort those who are in the like Distress, since they may conceive Hopes of being no longer miserable in this Kind, while there is yet alive so able an Oculist as Dr. Grant.

"To-morrow I am going to town," said Jimmie, "to see that oculist from Paris.

The first oculists of Europe had peered into and tested his eyes, but all to no purpose.