An account of the structure of the eye : with occasional remarks on some disorders of that organ, delivered in lectures at the theatre of Surgeons-Hall / By Thomas Gataker.

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769.
Date:
1761
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Credit: An account of the structure of the eye : with occasional remarks on some disorders of that organ, delivered in lectures at the theatre of Surgeons-Hall / By Thomas Gataker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    human body. But whatever indulgences of this fort a creative fancy* Or a motive lefs juf- tifiable may induce a writer to take* it ought to be confidered, that all diftindtions and fub- divifions upon thefe occafions, which are not eflentially ufeful, are in reality prejudicial: they load the memory, and confound the judg¬ ment of the unexperienced, and by filling the mind with falfe and trifling ideas, they prevent in fome degree the more plain and neceflary circumftances from being properly attended to. In the treatment of tumours formed upon the t *• • • • • » eye-lids, of what confequence can it be to know, whether any of them fefemble a barley¬ corn, a gravel-ftone, or a hail-ftone ? In the defcription of fome diforders of the eye itfelf, what anunnecelfaryand perplexing trouble muft it be to determine the figure and fize of cer¬ tain appearances? as whether they are formed like the nail of a man’s hand, or like the wing of a % bird? or whether they refemble a grape-ftone, a fmall apple, the head of a nail, or the head of a fly? Yet fuch kind of diftindtions are to be met with in writers of the greateft emi- r J * * nence. Another circumftance to which the want of B 2 fuccefs