A treatise on the cataract; : with cases to prove the necessity of dividing the transparent cornea, ... / by M. de Wenzel, jun. ... ; translated from the French, with many additional remarks, by James Ware, surgeon.

  • Wenzel, M. de (Michel), -1810.
Date:
M.DCC.XCI. [1791]
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Credit: A treatise on the cataract; : with cases to prove the necessity of dividing the transparent cornea, ... / by M. de Wenzel, jun. ... ; translated from the French, with many additional remarks, by James Ware, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ me] above five and. thirty years. ago*. A long and happy experience have fully afcertained their utility., And though, during the whole, of, this period, he has not publifhed. any thing on the fubjeét, yet his Inftru- ments, and his mode of Operating, | have been adopted by moft Ocu- lifts; and many who have written on the Cataraé, have taken the liberty to: defcribe them, without doing him the juftice to which he is entitled. This, in fap may have proceeded from an ignorance of my father’s claim, but in others, it can only be attributed to ardefire of appropriating to themfelves the merit of his invention. A few! who have deferibed his mode of Operat- * This Treatife:was. publithed at Paris, in.the-year _ 1786, it ing,