A treatise of a cataract ... with a distinct representation of the operations ... Also Mr. Daviel's comparative view of their respective merits ... extracted from the best authors / [George Chandler].

  • Chandler, George (Surgeon)
Date:
1775
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Credit: A treatise of a cataract ... with a distinct representation of the operations ... Also Mr. Daviel's comparative view of their respective merits ... extracted from the best authors / [George Chandler]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sauvage, and which appeared to me mofi worthy of obfervation; and have endea¬ voured to digeft thofe materials into fuch order and language* as might* to the bed of my power* convey the cleared: and fulled: ideas of the difeafe, in all its fhapes. It may perhaps be faid, that there am i many excellent treatifes already on this fub- ]e£i : To this I agree* and allow that every one of them have indeed fomething parti¬ cular deferving notice : But the greated part of them are either in latin or in a foreign language, and the few which are written in our own tongue, contain chiefly the mere fenti- ments of their refpe&ive authors. Thefe papers are intended to comprehend whatever appeared ufeful in each and omitted in the others. If any thing faid in the following fheets fhould feem to militate againd the prefent received opinions, it mud be remem¬ bered, that I have not delivered my own fenti- ments