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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    eye; the ringlets on the outflde of the body of this infedt, and the thirty-two feet of the infide, refembling the different rays of the iris outwardly, and the procejfus ciliaris in¬ wardly : and this gave the firft occafion of ufing this remedy as a fpecific? in mod difeafes that depended upon the pupil [c.] CHAP. V. To know when a CataraB is ripe. WHEN neither Hippocrates's fpeci- fic operation, nor the inward ufe of cheffelbugs, will fucceed in the difiipa- tion of a Cataradt, the oculift is obliged to remit the patient from fpring to fall, and from the fall to fpring again, till he finds the Cataradt thoroughly ripe, and fit for ope¬ ration : which is chiefly known by the fol¬ lowing flgns. Firft, the pupil, inftead of being black as jet, is quite of another colour, and par¬ ticularly of one of the colours before-men¬ tioned, which we fee in looking at different [ic] Mr. Woolhovfe ufed to refer thofe who would know more of this infedt to a treatife he publifhed con¬ cerning it, in the journal de Trgvoux, ftars *