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Chirurgical observations relative to the eye: with an appendix, on the introduction of the male catheter; and the treatment of the hæmorrhoids / By James Ware.

  • James Ware
Date:
1805
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Credit: Chirurgical observations relative to the eye: with an appendix, on the introduction of the male catheter; and the treatment of the hæmorrhoids / By James Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECT. II. The Opinion of the Antie^its,-ivith regard to the ' Seat of the Cataract. The antients, supposing that the eye could 4 ^ have no perception of objects Avithout the crys- talline humour, which they considered as the essential and immediate organ of sight*, gene- rally believed that the cataract was produced by a pellicle, formed before the crystalline, in the posterior chamber of the aqueous humour ; and modern writers, supported by their autho- ritv, especially that of Galen % have eagerly defended ' Celsus, lib. vii. cap. 7, p.-1-32. in 12mo. Amstelod, lfiS7. Sub his gutta humoris est ovi albo similis ; a qua ridendi facuUas proficiscitur5 xpraAAotoi:? a Grarcis iio- minatur. Galen de Usu Partium, lib. x. cap. 1. p. •Vi’y. edit. Charterii, Lutelia;, J.6'79, in fol. tom. -k ^ See Oribasius Syiiops. lib. viii. cap. 47* Ambrose Pare, lib. xviii. cap. 1.9. p. 4.3(). Lyon. 1()23, jMery Mem. de I’Acad. des Sciences, 1?07, p. 4p7.in ■!lo. Woolhousius in Diario erndit. mensis Novemb. 1720, ]>. 7()'S. Hovius
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