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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    [ ^2 ] irom the cornea tends to miflead, in thefe cafes, on taking a front view of the eye» and efpecially if the examination be fuper- ficial, and the patients complain of feeing mifts in the air, or objeds darting through it. Now it appears to me evident, that the diforder above mentioned, which gave way to the ufe of mercury, was nothing more than an extravafation of lymph in the fubftance of the cornea. And, as there is no well-authenticated cafe, which proves the fuccefs of any remedies in diffipating the cataradl^ and as, on the contrary, I have, in a great number of inftances, had occafion to obferve their total inefficacy, I think myfelf authorized in alTerting, that internal remedies, either of the mercurial, or of any other kind, are inadequate to the cure of this diforder; and, equally fo, whether the opacity be in the chryflalline, or in the capfule *, whether incipient, or advanced. Such applications tend only to feed a delufive hope, and vainly to torment * Tenon, Thefe aux Ecoles de Chirurgie de Paris, ann. 1757. thofe