A treatise on the cataract : with cases to prove the necessity of dividing the transparent cornea, and the capsule of the crystalline humour, differently, in the different species of this disease / by M. de Wenzel, jun. Baron of the Holy Roman Empire, physician of the Faculty of Nancy, and regent doctor of the Faculty of Medicine, in the University of Paris. Translated from the French, with many additional remarks, by James Ware, surgeon.

  • Wenzel, M. de (Michel), -1810. Traité de la cataracte. English
Date:
1791
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Credit: A treatise on the cataract : with cases to prove the necessity of dividing the transparent cornea, and the capsule of the crystalline humour, differently, in the different species of this disease / by M. de Wenzel, jun. Baron of the Holy Roman Empire, physician of the Faculty of Nancy, and regent doctor of the Faculty of Medicine, in the University of Paris. Translated from the French, with many additional remarks, by James Ware, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] vince him of this faft; and it is in conle- quence of thefe, that, in our pradlice, we employ a different mode of operating. This new method has conftantly fucceeded with us, and as there is reafon to beheve it may prove equally fuccefsful in the hands of others who apply themfelves to this branch of furgery, I fhall now pro- ceed to defcribe it with all the accuracy of which I am capable. The patient is to be placed in the fafne polition, as if he were to undergo the operation of having the cataradt extradled > and the cornea knife, defcribed in a former part of this treatife, is to be pierced into the cornea, exadtly in the fame manner as in that operation. When the point of the inftrument has arrived at about the diftance of half a line from the center of the iris, it muft be plunged into this membrane, to about the depth of half a line; and, by a flight motion of the hand backward, it muft be brought out again, about the diftance of three quarters of a line from the part in which it enter- ed.