An enquiry into the causes which have most commonly prevented success in the operation of extracting the cataract : with an account of the means by which they may be either avoided or rectified. To which are added, observations on the dissipation of the cataract, and on the care of the gutta serena. Also, additional remarks on the epiphora; or, watery eye. The whole illustrated with a variety of cases / By James Ware.

  • James Ware
Date:
1795
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Credit: An enquiry into the causes which have most commonly prevented success in the operation of extracting the cataract : with an account of the means by which they may be either avoided or rectified. To which are added, observations on the dissipation of the cataract, and on the care of the gutta serena. Also, additional remarks on the epiphora; or, watery eye. The whole illustrated with a variety of cases / By James Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    caufe ; infomuch that he indulges the opinion, that, under fuch cir- cumftances, the operation will rarely, if ever, be neceffary. ' The three cafes which are defcribed at length, under this head, werepub- lifhed in the third volume of the Memoirs of the Medical Society of London. Of thefe, it is true, one only was produced by acci¬ dent; but in the Notes, which the author has now added, notice istaken of many others which were diffipated, and where the fight was reftored, without any operation whatever. The two cafes, in which the Cataraft was produced without a known caufe, and in which
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