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)
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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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    But we muft not omit what Mr. Heijter fays farther, viz. that although the true, ordinary, and moft frequent caufe of a cata- radt, is an opacity or obfcurity of the chryfi. talline humour yet that he is far from de¬ nying but that it fometimes, though but rarely, is occaiioned by a preternatural mem¬ brane or pellicle in the aqueous humour, jt .m * of which he produces feveral infiances j one. of his own obfervation, another from Lancift, and others from other authors ]j. Paljin reports, that fince the difpute on this fubjedi, between Mr. Woolhoufe and Mr. Heijier, many infiances of the kind have been found, by different perfons, in human fubjedis; he enu¬ merates above twenty, amongft which he reckons three by Winjlow, three by hanciji, and fix by Geijler §. Morgagni alfo cites Mauchart and Zeller as having feen in each |j Heifler, p. 533-4, § Anatomie Chirurgicale, edit, Petit. 1753, tom. 2, p. 425. eye
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