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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    [ 038 ¥] courfe to the operation *, even at the dif- tance of fome years after the time when it — was firft performed. Cuffon + afferts, that he has never known more than one in- {tance of this kind; but as he did not ap- ply himfelf particularly to this branch of furgery, it is not extraordinary that he fhould confider fuch a circumftance as length it totally difappeared. During the time that the opaque chryftalline oated in the anterior cham- ber, the eye was conftantly in a ftate of irritation; in confequence of which the patient was repeatedly re- quefted to allow the opaque body to be extracted ; but he always objected to fubmit to it. ‘The pupil rechgift ed large and clear, after the cataract difappeared, but the irritation, which its preflure on the iris kept up, continued fo long, that it produced a true gutta ferena, which totally deftroyed vifion. Some months after this, a cataract was completely formed in the oppofite eye ; which being extracted in the ufual manner, the fi fight was eee reftored. * Maitre Jean, Maladies des TAM article de la-Ca- taracte. 5. Yves, Maladies des Yeux, de la Cataraéte, Jofeph Warner, Defcription of the Human Eye, &c, in 6°.7p. 07, + Remarques fur la Cataragte, par M. P. Cuffon, Medecin. de Montpellier, a a Montpellier, 1779, in, 4° p. 4f. {carcely