A treatise of the cataract and glaucoma : in which the specific definitions of those two diseases, and the existence of membranous cataracts, are clearly demonstrated. With a plain description of the methods of operating in all circumstances of either distemper ... / compiled from the dictates of Mr. Woolhouse, as taken from him in writing, by one of his pupils.

  • Woolhouse, John Thomas, approximately 1650-1734.
Date:
1745
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Credit: A treatise of the cataract and glaucoma : in which the specific definitions of those two diseases, and the existence of membranous cataracts, are clearly demonstrated. With a plain description of the methods of operating in all circumstances of either distemper ... / compiled from the dictates of Mr. Woolhouse, as taken from him in writing, by one of his pupils. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fible that a light thin Cataradl, being fepa^ rated from all its fmall threads and roots that gave it nourifhment, and wanting juices to nourifti itfelf, might at laft be reduced to its primitive original, and carried away by the abducent veflels] of the aqueous humour in the ufual way of circulation* Moreover I had feen, at my father's (an oculift and li- thotomift of long ftanding at Nuremberg) feveral incipientCatarafts entirely difiipated by means of internal medicines; and external applications commonly made ufe of in the like cafes, with good fuccefs by my late fa¬ ther. Befides our eideft oculift in Germany George Barrejon, gives an account of fever ral inftances, or like cures of fuffufions, in his Aug. Difcut. — Mr. Heijler greatly com¬ mends this author, though he will not admit that the Glaucoma of the chryftalline be curable. To this Dr. Morafch made anfwer, We1 (hall go to-morrow and fee which affertion of the two is trued. Accordingly the next day he carried me to a friend of his,- who had died about two days before, and three years before had been couched by Mr. Rich* tery a German oculift. After he had drawn the eye out of the orbit of the head, and differed it, we found all the three humours of it clear and tranfparent, the aqueous humour not being in any manner turbid, muddy,