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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    far from effecting the cure, Nay, even fuppofe a Cataradt could be diffolved in the eye ; the parts of the Cataradl, after diffolu- tion, would never be fo minute, as to enter into the way of circulation by the vafa ab- ducentia of the aqueous humour: fo that the patient would .receive no advantage by this analyfis, nor would the feparted parts in time produce any good effedts upon the chryftaL- line humour ; which they would be rather apt to obfcure and cover. The only certain methods that have ever yet been found, from the time of Hippo¬ crates down to this day, to hinder the pro- grefs of Cataradts, are, Firft, to let out the grofs watry humour, by the operation of the parakentefis [z.] The fecond way of. cure is taught by that great man, in his fhort treatife de Vifu ; wherein he declares, that the way to hinder the growth of Cata- radts and Glaucomas, is to bar the arteries, either upon the temple, on the fore or hin¬ der part of the ear \_ai] Mr. Boyle was the only man that ever found out a good internal remedy, either to diffipale Cataradts, or hinder their growth. [%] This operation is faid to be ufe in the Indies. Mr. iVooihouje had feen it pradtifed in England alfo, by Dr. Turherv'de. [<?] Mr. Woolhoufe had feen this operation frequently performed by Guerin, Monie, and Bouvey, French fur- geons; and, he fays, with very good fuccefs. It