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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    Mr. Woolhoufe made one experiment of this kind at St. Get-main en Laye, in the hofpital of Madam de Montefpan, upon one Gabriel Coxy a man of above 60 years of age, who recovered his fight upon the ope¬ ration : and his eye being opened by the fame gentleman, after his death, the chry¬ ftalline humour was found tranfparent, and in the natural place. This was therefore a true membranous Cataradt, becaufe cured by couching. This old difpute, concerning the exig¬ ence of membranous Cataracts, lay dormant till the laft century, when an eye that had been couched was brought into that learned fociety, which afterwards formed the aca¬ demy royal of fciences. It was there open¬ ed, and found without a chryftalline hu¬ mour ; by which Gafjendus and Rohault, two great naturalifts, concluded that hu¬ mour to have been depreffed in the opera¬ tion, and that there had been no other Ca¬ taradt but an opaque chryftalline [n.] But the learned world remained unac¬ quainted with this experiment, as well as with the infinuation concerning Rufus, which was exploded as an ill-grounded tra¬ dition by the fophiftry of oculids. It was [;n\ Abbe de Bourdelot gives an account of this expe¬ riment in his Conferences Academiqu.es, publifhed in two volumes, before this company was honoured with the title of Academie Royale. the