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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    that the lofs of fight, in this diforder, is occafioned by the opaque humour inter- cepting the rays of light in their progrefs to the immediate organ of vifion *. Rolfincius in Diflert. Norimb, 1656, lib. i. cap. I3» p. 179. Gaffendi Oper. Phyfic, torn. 2. p. 371. Rohault Tra£t. Phyfic, torn. i. p. 416. Marriotte nouvelles Decouvertes fur la Vue, Paris, 1668. Brifleau Traite de la Catarade et du Glaucoma, Tournay, 1706. Ant. Maitre Jean Malad. dex Yeux, in 12°. p. 98, 1740. * I have frequently feen the membrane of the aqueous humour {a) rendered opaque after an hypopion. This accident will be defcribed in another place. It would tend to confufe the defcription of diforders of the eye, if the name of membranous catara£l was given to fuch an opacity. (a) The tranflator has taken pains to afcertain the exiftence of %]ns membrane of the aqueous humour, by differing a very confi- derable number of eyes of different animals j but he has, hitherto, been unabU to difcover it in any of tli^iDt $ E C T.