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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    partizans of the new option have from thence taken occafion to fay, that were the true Cataract a membrane only, it could not fo difappear on a fudden : yet that it does, Mr. Woolhoufe, from his own experi¬ ence, was certain. He met with one cafe of a girl, at Cou- tance in Lower Normandy, who wTas born blind of both eyes, having a Cataradi in each. No fooner had he planted his needle in one of her eyes, in order to deprefs the Cataradt, but the girl vomited fo violently [d] in his face, as made him obliged to delift, from the operation at prefent. The mo¬ ther, however, tormented him fo, in the afternoon of the fame day, to give fight at leaft to one of her daughter’s eyes (he ha¬ ving performed feveral operations in the in¬ terim) that he complied. In a word, open¬ ing the other eye, the Cataradi: was perfect¬ ly deprefied, and the girl faw well. He would give an infinite number of fuch exam¬ ples and experiments, both of the Cataradt and Glaucoma. But the mechanical reafon of this effedt in both diftempers is not the fame* The [d] We fuppofe the Cataradt funk at the fame time, in order to continue the argument. Mr. Woolhoufe ufed to obferve, that this vomiting is a frequent cafe, as foon as the needle has pierced the membrane of the eye, efpe- dally if the patient has eaten any thing firong, or filled theftomach juft before the operation.