Nomenclatura critica morborum ocularium: or, a critical index to the distempers of the eyes / By John Henry Mauclerc, M.D.

  • Mauclerc, John Henry, 1700-
Date:
1768
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Credit: Nomenclatura critica morborum ocularium: or, a critical index to the distempers of the eyes / By John Henry Mauclerc, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nyffalopia, and Myopia: but it fhould be re¬ membered, that Nydlalopia and Hemeralopia are real contrary difeafes, that Maitre-Jan, in my opinion, gives the beft account of. As for Myopia, it is no diftemper, but a na¬ tive conformation of tjhe Eye. Laftly, I believe there is fome blunder and miftake with regard to feeing better in the night than in the day; for I, who am fhort- fighted, do not fee better in the night, but only do not then perceive that I am fhort- fighted y and thofe, who fee better in the night than in the day, dare not open their eyes enough in funfhine to fee. OEDEMA. Injlatio Ocaliy tumor cedema- tofus in albo Oculi. Quaer. an Epanajlema fupra ? ONYX. Septem autem numerantur incraf- famenti Cornea fpecies : Unguis, Hyperfarco]isy Per la, Panniculusy Cartilage, Suppuratio par- tium externarumy Excoriatio. Boer. Praeledl. p. 35. Suppuratio, Jive ulcus profundius no- minatur Onyxy cum pus depluens unguis refedli imaginem refert. N. B. This is a very dif- * ferent thing from the Ungula, Jive Unguis Oculiy called Pterygium, which fee. OPHTHALMIA. Inflammatio Adnata, Lippitudo. This diftemper is too well known, and goes molt peculiarly under the name of Sore Eyes. OULE, though a general name for a Scar, paffes for a Scar arifing from an Ulcer in the Cornea. PARA-