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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    from the negled of men of fcience, and the enterprifing ignorance of empirics. I (ball begin my obfervations on the re¬ gular praditioners, and account for the cautious advances of the antients by the prudent maxims of the moderns. Phyficians and Surgeons mud have ei¬ ther thought, that the treatment of difeafed eyes was brought to perfedion, or that they hazarded their reputation in attempt¬ ing the cure of difeafes fo obvious. For mankind in general are judges in thefe difeafes from ocular demonftration, and have thepowertopraifeor condemnthe phy- fician in proportion as his pradice proves fuccefsful or unfuccefsful. This prudential regard to reputation.has doneconfiderable mifchief, and cannot be too much difcou- raged; how contemptible does either phy- fician or furgeon appear, when they re¬ commend the affiided either to the phy- fical treatment, or chirurgical operations of itinerant oculifts. Yet, as this is too much the pradice in this enlightened age of fcience, it is not to be wondered at in thefe ages which palled in darknefs and fuperftition. Thus