A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes; containing a critical and candid examination of the antient and modern methods of cure, of the present defective modes of practice, with an account of new, mild, and successful methods for the cure of diseases of this organ / By William Rowley.

  • William Rowley
Date:
1773
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Credit: A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes; containing a critical and candid examination of the antient and modern methods of cure, of the present defective modes of practice, with an account of new, mild, and successful methods for the cure of diseases of this organ / By William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I • [ vii ] • • fuperftitious zeal for religion, which led one part to a total negledt of every thing learned, and the others to an utter con* tempt of every thing which did not tend to the promotion of religion, or their own private interefts. I muft obferve, that the pra&ice of the antients in the opthalmia, far excelled that of the moderns. There is a confif- tency and fimplicity which well deferves our notice, and this arofe from practical obfervation, joined with a clearnefs and folidity of judgment. It were to be widi¬ ed, that the moderns had imitated and improved the art of phyfic, by the fame means that the antients acquired their knowledge. For though a great part of the antient theory was founded on falls principles, yet it is not an improbable conjecture, that -they never believed in their theory, any more than a fenfible phyfician does in many of our modern hypothefes. Mankind have thought it neceffary, in all ages, to make a myf- tery of their knowledge, and have often covered their ignorance, by afluming a fpecious (hew of profound learning, qv by
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