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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    cd, in a letter to the honourable Robert Boyle, Efq; printed at the end of his anato¬ my of an elephant. But that letter, by be¬ ing writ in Englijh, has not been fufficient- ly known to the learned abroad [/]. He ibews us there pretty diftinCHy the feveral velfels, and has given us fome figures, in which he has delineated, though imperfect¬ ly, the feveral proper duCts of the three hu¬ mours. This difcovery perfectly well a- grees with all the definitions of a CataraCt and a Glaucoma by the beft Greek au¬ thors. Harvey tells us, that in a CataraCt the vafa adducentia of the watry humour are en¬ larged, and let out the humour while yet chilous and unprepared ; fo that thefe groffer particles remain floating in the prepared hu¬ mour, and cannot be carried into the way of circulation by the vafa abducentia, which are not fo affeCted. Thefe little particles unite in procefs of time, and make as it were a membrane. All the antients agree that the CataraCt is as it were a membrane, and none of them [z] M, Rulfch was however acquainted with it in Holland, and has built upon that piece a moft excel¬ lent hypothecs, without ever mentioning the author,, anymore than if he had never wrote. He has much enlarged and improved the Englijhman’s drawings, and explained them to more advantage: but the honour of this great difcovery Hiculd kill remain to the original au- thor.