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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    TREATISE O F T H E CHAP. I. Definition of a CataraSi. CATARACT is a Greek word,* that fignifies primarily [a] a breaks or abrupt defcent in the courfe of a river, down which the water precipitates. It is alfo ufed for a food-gate, or port-cullis, whofe intervention hinders [<?] KrfTrtfefcX-Tfif, Locus abruptus & pr^ceps in flu- mine, unde aqua prseceps ruit; vedtis, obex, porta, David, in the feptuagint verfion, makes ufe of it in the Pfalms according to the hrft fenfe. Thus we fay the B Catara&s