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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    It is by an infeft called the wild cloportes* or multipedes; faid by fome to be the fame as the millepedes, or afelli. In Englijh, they are called cheefelips, cbejfelbugs> or cheefebubbs [£.] They have thirty-two feet, and are to be found only in woods and forefts, in the free air, generally about beech-trees. They are of all manner of colours, according to the foil they are in : but the mod of them are of a fliining brown chefnut, polifhed like fine tortoifefhell. Their body is compofed of feveral rings, or articulations, which clofe over one another fo fad, that one might eafily miftake it for fome polifhed pebble- done. Partridges and pheafants love thema and live moftly upon them. But ignorance has impofed upon the world a fubftitute in the place of this excellent reme¬ dy : an infedl which the bcitins called porceU Hones ; the Englijh call lows, or wood 1 ice? and the French, puffillets. This is quite an¬ other fort of a creature, and has only twelve feet,with an anchored or forked tail, and long¬ horns, upon its head. There are feveral fpe- [b] Etmuller and Schroder fay, they had very good fuccefs by the ufe of this infedt. Mr. Wbolhoufe owned, that for his own part, he never found it diffipate one Cataract: but Laly and Dechamp, French furgeons, af- fured him, that the confelTor of the nuns of Malta, at Montpellier, was cured of a full grown Cataract by the ufe of this fmglc remedy. cies