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.

John Thomas Woolhouse

Date:: 1745

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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THE PREFACE. TO the learned and curious, who are acquainted with the merit and reputation of the late Mr. Wool- boufey it is prefumed there can be no need to fay any thing in recommendation of a treatife on this fubjedt, that comes ori¬ ginally from him. The character of ha¬ ving had a moft confummate fkill in his profeffion, obtained from a long courfe of both his father’s and his own experience, and a diligent ftudy of all the great mailers of antiquity, will hardly at this time, when the difputes he was fo long engaged in are fubfided, be denied him by any perfon of candour. What thofe difputes were, the following fheets will fufficiently teach. They wili let the reader fee, that at a time when almoft the whole current of theory and practice A a ran /

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