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.
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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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    [ 37.4] and fucking ftrongly at its extremity. It is equally unaccountable, that Rocho Mat- hioli, furgeon to-Charles Ferdinand, arch- duke of Auftria,~ fthould advife the intro- duction of a gold wire, inclofed in a canula, into the eye, to feize the cataract, (which he in. common with his eotemporaries believed to be membranous) and, by gently moving the inftrument, to extraét the cataract on the point of the wire. This operation is defcribed in Scultetus *, Bernard Albinus propofed to extract the catara@t, which he alfo believed to be membranous, by means of an inftrument refembling a {mall forceps +. Freytagius advifed to extract the .cata- ract with a needle bent like a hook. He infifted, that the cataraét was in all cafes membranous, and that it f{carcely ever was occafioned by an opacity of the chryftal- line humour. The remark I have made above concerning this fuppofed membrane, * Armament. Chir. p. 79. Amfterd. 1672. + Heifter, Inftit. Chirurg, p. 580. tom. I. in gto, Amftesd. 1750. Co | applies