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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    call it a real membraneous body, as fome moderns pretend to have found it. CHAR II. Of membranous Catara&s. Hijlory of the Difputes on that Subject to the Tear 1720, VER fince Paulus JEgineta’s time. there has been a difpute now and then raifed, whether or no there was any fuch thing as membranous Catarads. Paulus himfelf makes mention of this doubt, not as the refult of his own opinion, but from the opinion of Rufus of Ephefus [£] : but there is no fuch thing in all the remaining works of Rufus : fo that it is probable ei¬ ther this treatife of Rufus is loft, or that it was only a traditional hearfay from Rufus's time. As for Mgineta’s own part, he con- f [£] The title of his chapter is clear : de Diffuftone & Glaucomate, ex Rufo. This Paulus was a great collector, and rather valuable for what he has left us of others, than, for what he difcovered himfelf. Yet fome improvements in the medical art feem to be due to him, which the reader may fee enumerated in that valuable treatife of Dr. Freindy The hijlory of phyfic from the time of Galen t$ the beginning of the fixteenth century* demns