On the operation of largely puncturing the capsule of the crystalline humour; in order to promote the absorption of the cataract; and on the gutta serena accompanied with pain and inflammation / by James Ware.

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1812
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Credit: On the operation of largely puncturing the capsule of the crystalline humour; in order to promote the absorption of the cataract; and on the gutta serena accompanied with pain and inflammation / by James Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    necessary to excite by stimulating appli- cations of considerable power ; notwitb^ standing the use of which, the progress of the amendment was in general tediously slow. I have not thought it necessary to introduce these papers on the present occasion, since we are now become ac- quainted with a mode by which the absorp- tion may be accomplished much more ex- ^ peditiously, not only in cases where the ca- taract has been produced by an accident, but in those wh^re it ha^scome on in infan- cy, and sometimes also at later periods of lifev without the-intervention of any exter- nal cause whatsoever. The mode to which I refer is an operation easy to be per- formed, which resembles in many respects that which was proposed by Celsus, and has been described by almost every writer on , the subject., under the name of couchmg. The instrument used for the ^ purpose of couching has been much varied by differ- ent, surgeons ;. but the intention l;as almost uniformly been, until the tim^ of Mp. Pott, as its name denotes,' that of depressing, or couching, the opaque crystalline out ot the V