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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    trine met with frefh confirmation from a cataradted eye,produced by an academician at Paris. In this eye there was vifibly form¬ ed a fort of membranous body, obftrudling the pupil, the chryftalline humour retain¬ ing its ^natural tranfparency. All this while, it fee ms, neither of the new treatifes was publifhed ; and one would have thought, after fuch printed anfwers had been given,and the hypothefisabfolutely over¬ thrown by an indifputable experiment, the authors of both would have thought proper to fupprefs their vifions. But it happened otherwife : they ventured them into the world ; and Mr. JVoolhoufe thought himfelf obliged to accompany them with his full refutation [y.] After thefe publications, within a few years, Mr. JVoolhoufe had the corroborating evidence of no lefs than eighteen membra- nous Cataradts, all contra-diftincl from Glau¬ comas. This did not, however, bring anv difgrace upon Dr. Brifjeau, who, upon his pretended new difeovery, was made profef- for of phyfic and furgery at Do way, gentleman never (poke to him of this pretended difeo¬ very, though he had feen him couch feveral Cataradts in Tour nay. Adorn, and Conde. [q] Tiiis was printed at Offenbach, near Frankfort up¬ on the M'ayn, by one of Mr. iFoclhoufc’s difciples ; the fir ft edition in Frenchr and the fecorid in Latin.