Observations on the cataract and gutta serena / by James Ware.

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Observations on the cataract and gutta serena / by James Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    that which is usually preferred when it at- tacks persons who are further advanced in life. The Fourth Tract, in the two former editions, was on the Dissipation of the Ca- taract. Instances of cures accomplished in this way had, at the time these editions were published, so repeatedly come under ■my notice, when the disorder was produced by an external cause, that I indulged a hope, the operation, under such circum- stances, might rarely, if ever, be necessary. The operation of largely puncturing the Capsule of the Crystalline Humour is, how- ever, now made so safe and easy, and so greatly expedites the Dissipation, or, to speak more correctly, the Absorption, of the Cataract, when it is occasioned in this way, as well as when it affects infants and children without such a cause, that I have not thought it necessary to detail the cases formerly adduced in proof of the fact, that it may be dissipated without an operation ;