A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes; containing a critical and candid examination of the antient and modern methods of cure, of the present defective modes of practice, with an account of new, mild, and successful methods for the cure of diseases of this organ / By William Rowley.

  • Rowley, William, 1742-1806
Date:
1773
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Credit: A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes; containing a critical and candid examination of the antient and modern methods of cure, of the present defective modes of practice, with an account of new, mild, and successful methods for the cure of diseases of this organ / By William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which, though of a light colour and tranf- parentin youth, becomes gradually yellow as perfons advance in years; from too ftrong light y from the too early uie of improper glafles; from intemperance, or excefles of any fort, and piany other caufes. It is therefore the phyficians or furgeons duty to be clear in the caufes of any im¬ pediment in vifion, and to recommend the moft probable methods of preventing or curing the fame. The Strabifmus, or fquinting, is cured, when recent, by an inftrument perforated in the centre, with a fmall hole fecured on the eye, which by obliging the patient to look in a direct line, recovers the original and natural adtions of the affedted mufcles ; the defedt of which is the caufe of this difagreeable complaint. We have now confidered the moft com- . • k ./ fc. • ' 1 ' ‘ * mon difeafes of the eyes, which require medical treatment; in the future part of this work, which Iftiall hereafter publifh, I fhall examine the operations on the eyes, and explain what improvements have been made, both antient and modern. And here I could wiflh, for the honour of, phy¬ ficians.