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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    that all Cataracts muft neceffarilv be round, unlefs ‘Tome particular caufe intervenes, to give them another figure and (hape. Sometimes Cataracts are hereditary, and propagated from father to ion, ex traduce. The family of La Seur at Paris, in the royal hofpital of ^uinze Vingt, had, at the time of taking down thefe dictates, four ge¬ nerations blind of Cataradis; four fons of the fame father all loft their fight at about thirty years of age ; and the children of thefe, daughters as well as fons, had all the fame misfortune. Mr. Woolhoufe had known fe¬ deral fuch families, as well in England as in France [y.] Tire [y] He instances particulary in M. Botfenoir, ad¬ vocate of the parliament of Roan, whole Father he had couched, as well as himfelf, and his fon had then a Ca- taradl in one eye. Both the father and mother of M. Boifenoir the elder had died blind of Cataradts. Here then is another inftance of four generations. 44 I 44 have made it, fays Mr. Woolhoufe, amonglt my fami- 44 ly obfervations, that women troubled with the falling— 44 ficknefs during their pregnancy, generally bring forth 44 children blind of Cataradfs. I have feen at Cou- 44 tance, in the Lower Normandy, five Children of the 44 fame father and mother born blind of Cataradh. I 44 have feen at Paris, three children of the fame father 44 and mother born blind of Cataradfs fuccefiively. The 44 father was troubled with the failing-ficknefs in the lat- 44 ter pregnancy, and the mother in the others. And 44 in the thirty-fix different fubjedts I have cured that 44 were born blind, nine of their parents were troubled 44 now