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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    t CataraSi and Glaucoma. 7 demns the opinion very much* at the fame time that he produces it. Affiuarius^ after Paulus, makes mention of the fame doubt $ but imputes ignorance to them who are inclined to believe the Glaucoma and Cataract to be the fame di- feafe. Galen is very exprefs in the mat¬ ter $ he [/] afcribes the Glaucoma only to the chryftalline humour, and fays it is the worft and mod incurable of all the difeafes of the eyes. This contrariety of opinions it is not very difficult to reconcile* efpecially when we read Mtius upon the matter* who is the only author among the Gf eeks that acquaints us, that all Cataradts may become Glaucomas in time. Mr. Geijler, furgeon of the hofpital of the Holy Ghojl at Nurenberg, opened fix eyes fucceffively wherein Cataradts had been couched, fome by himfelf, and others by another Oculift ; and in two of thofe eyes* which recovered not their fight, the chry¬ ftalline humours were found yellow, and quite opaque. But membranous Cataradts that gentleman deprelfed to the bottom of the eye, between the inward part of the iris and the procefjus ciliaris [m. ] [/] In his Treatife De ufu partium, [tn] This was conformable to the practice and inftruc- lions of Mr. TVoolhouJe, to whom Mr. Geijler had been a pupil at Paris, and to whom he communicated his ob~ fervations and experiments, Mr.