A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye / [John Vetch].

  • John Vetch
Date:
1820
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye / [John Vetch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. IV. ON LENTICULAR AND CAPSULAR INFLAMMATION, Opacity of the lens and its capsule, Cataract, Suffusio, Hypochyma, forms one of the most, frequent causes of blindness, and has been an object of attention from the earliest period of medical record ; butas the removal of the disease, when fully formed, can only be accomplished by a manual operation, its investigation has been more than any other left unattempted by pathologists, from an indolent confidence in those who confine their attention to the diseases of the eye, or to this one in par: ticular. The result of delivermg over so impor- tant a disease to the exclusive management of eye operators has been, that, excepting the occa- sional light thrown upon the nature of the disease by men distinguished in the wider paths of medical science, very little of actual knowledge has been added to the subject since the days of Celsus and Galen. Of late years, the study of this disease has advanced with the general knowledge of pathology, both in this country and on the con- tinent ; the successive changes produced by inflam- mation and absorption have been ascertained
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