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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    / IO A TreatIfe of the In the year 1707* M. Maitre-Jean pre~ fented to the academy of fciences fome re¬ marks he had made concerning Cataradls, wherein he pretended to be the author of a new difcovery : he maintained, that all Ca¬ taracts were nothing elfe but what the fchools of pbyfic and furgery had always hitherto called Glaucomas, Mr. JVoolhoufe wrote a refutation of that fyftem, which was read in the public academy, by M. de la Hire, profeflor of mathematicks 5 and M. le Clerc gave an extract of that manu¬ re rip t, in the twentieth tome of his Bibliothe- que Choi fie. Some months after, Dr. Brijjeau, phy- Jicianof the royal hofpital at Tournay, fell [upon much the fame fyftem, and fent his remarks to Mr. Doddard, afterwards firft phylician to the French king, for his approbation. Mr. Woolhoufe then wrote a refutation of both him and Maitre-Jean together, an extraCt of which was alfo published in the lite¬ rary journals of thofe times [/>.] His doc¬ trine fifty times together. Upon being a Iked how he became fo exadb and adroit, he anfwered naturally and honeftly enough, that it was by burfting fome bufhels of eyes, he had pretended to couch. Pie was always very much diflatisfied with Mr JVoolhoufe, for making a fpecific di¬ ll. indtion between the Cataradtand Glaucoma, alledging, that he fpoiled their trade. {/>] He complained of the ufage of Dr. Briffeau, whom he called his friend and acquaintance, becaufe that gentleman