On the cure of cataract, with a practical summary of the best modes of operating, (Contintental and British).

  • Neill, Hugh
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1848
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    CATARACT. A distinguished Continental Author, Victor Stceber, defines Cataract as an opacity of one or more of the parts which compose the Lenticular System. [a] The so-called Lenticular System comprises the Definition ... 7 . _ ...... .. and seat of crystalline lens, its capsule, also a fluid within it techni- cataract. cally known in honour of its discoverer as the humour or liquor of Morgagni. unous forms not Lymphatic exudations, pus, and hardened blood occu- spi pying a position in the front of the lens, have indis- noted? criminately received the names of lymphatic—purulent —and grumous Cataract. Such however are false forms of the disease, of which I shall not now treat. The immediate cause of Cataract is not always the what is the immediate same, nor is it in all cases discoverable. Most frequently cause? [a] Manuel pratique d'Ophthal- bestowal in common with the mologie, ou Traite des Maladies French,) are chiefly, in Latin, des Yeux, par Victor Stceber, Doc- suffasio; gutta serena; also the old teuren Medicin,agrege alafaculte Greek epithet hypochyma. But I de Medicin de Strasburg.—Paris. have reserved the discussion, how- In the languages most generally ever brief, of synonymes and ety- known over the Globe, the syno- mology, for a fitter place in the nymes of Cataract (which word sequel.—H. N. we adopt as if primarily of Greek B