A practical treatise on cataract / By John Stevenson.

  • Stevenson, John, 1778-1846?
Date:
1813
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    s tertained by the vulgar) that a few only of the more unprejudiced and well-informed, believed the disease to be absolutely situated in the crystalline lens, until the beginning of the 17th century.* * * § About that period, the several interesting publications of Mai- tre-Jan,^ in 1707, Brisseauj: in 1709, Heis- ter§ particularly in 1711, &c. and St. Ives|| in 1721, &c. added to the removal by the latter in 1707, and by M. Petit^f in 1708* through an incision in the cornea of some opake crystallines which, after depression, had emerged again, and passed through the pupil into the anterior chamber, supported as they were by repeated dissections of cata- ractous eyes, and subsequently by the ope^ * “ Cette verite n’etoit pourtant encore connue que d*im petit nombre de personnes au commencement de ce si£cle,*p &c* Sabatier de la Med. Operat. tom. ii. 8vo. 1796. f Ant. Maitre-Jan. Traitedes Malad. de l’CEil. in 12mo. 1722.; ' . | Brisseau Traite de la Cataracte et du Glaucoma, Tour- nay, 1706. § Heister Tract, de Cataract in lente crystall. 1711. Be Glaucome et Amaurosi, 1713 ; and his Vindiciae against Woolhouse, 1779. by which admirable productions he may be said to have obtained a complete victory over the advo¬ cates for the doctrine of Galen, and his followers. |J St. Ives Malad. des Yeux, in 12mo. IT Petit. Mem. de PAcad. des Sciences, 1708, p. 24&