The synthesis of cataract / by Benjamin W. Richardson.

  • Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896.
Date:
[1860]
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Credit: The synthesis of cataract / by Benjamin W. Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    /3. THE STNTHESIS OF CATARACT B V Benjamin W. RICHARDSOHT, m. a. m. n. In the American Journal of the Médical Sciences for January 1860,there is a paper, by Dr S.Weir Mitchell, on the production of cataract in frogs, by the introduction of sugar into the Sys- tem. It appears from Dr Mitchell's paper that he arrived at his facts in the following way. He was engaged in performing a séries of experiments on the absorption of woorara through ani- mal membranes. A solution of woorara having been enclosed in the stomach of a rabbit, the stomach was placed in syrup for two hours. About two drachms of the syrup were then in- jected under the skin of a pigeon, but no resnlt indicating the introduction of a poison followed. One drachm and a halfof the saine syrup was next injected into the subcuticular sac of a frog. The frog died within five hours. An examination of the