A treatise of the cataract and glaucoma : in which the specific definitions of those two diseases, and the existence of membranous cataracts, are clearly demonstrated. With a plain description of the methods of operating in all circumstances of either distemper ... / compiled from the dictates of Mr. Woolhouse, as taken from him in writing, by one of his pupils.

  • Woolhouse, John Thomas, approximately 1650-1734.
Date:
1745
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Credit: A treatise of the cataract and glaucoma : in which the specific definitions of those two diseases, and the existence of membranous cataracts, are clearly demonstrated. With a plain description of the methods of operating in all circumstances of either distemper ... / compiled from the dictates of Mr. Woolhouse, as taken from him in writing, by one of his pupils. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 A Treatife of the minutely defcribes the operation, and in both he agrees well with our fyftem. Hypochyma [f'], or fuffufion, is another Greek appellation made uie of by the an- tients for this diftemper, which is always feated .under the pupil. They like wife call it Parekchyjis [g], a word yet rather more expreffive, fignifying a fufion near the pu¬ pil, or apple of the eye : thereby intimating, that the Cataradt is’ always about the rim of the iris. None of thefe great men ever pretended (what feme modern authors would have us believe) that the Cataradt is a concretion of the natural watry humour of the eye. They indeed call it a congela¬ tion, or condenfation of a certain humour [h] ; by that definite expreffion excluding the watry humour, which if they had meant, they would have ufed the proper denomination. In fine, all the names and definitions unite to teach us, that the Cataradt is not a concretion of the watry humour naturally filtrated, but an adventitious body formed in that humour by fome inlet of another, of heterogeneous quality. This Molineux per¬ fectly well obferved, and was the firft who ever demon ft rated how the Cataradt is form- [/] ’ riroxvp&> sb wTro'/yu, fuffundo. [-P-] nafwxytru, efFufiohumorum inter cuterm [|] IIcujufdem humoris.