A practical treatise on cataract / By John Stevenson ... [etc.].

  • Stevenson, John, 1778-1846?
Date:
1813
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    A TREATISE, &c SECTION I. ON THE NATURE AND SEAT OF TRUE CATARACT. Disease distinguished by the term Cataract,* has for ages been esteemed, on account of its prevalence, the blindness it * By the antient Greeks, Cataract (an epithet derived from k«Tap*V<7«, to confound, because it confuses the sight) was called Twoxven and Y7rt/^o/xa. SufTusio quoque, quam Graeci xnroyvaw nominant, interdum oculi pupilla?, qua cer- nit, sc opponit. Cels. de Suff. lib. vii. cap. 7.— SufTusio Latinis, woxvp* Grsecis, vulgd Cataracta dicitur, sumptS, uti opinor, denominatione ab illis portis, qua? in oppidis et castris, superna deorsum cadunt, et omnem prohibent transitum. Fabric, ab Aquapendent, Opera Chirurg. de Suffus. p. 57. It was likewise denominated by some, Glau- coma ; Glaucoma et suffusionem veteres unum eundem- que morbum esse existimarunt, &c. Oribasii Synops. cap. 47, lib. 8. Also Gutta obscura vel caliginosa, and some- times Imaginatio, by the Arabians ; and SufTusio only by the Latins. Vide Galen dc usu part. lib. x. cap. 1. Avi- cennae Opera a Plempio, fol. 1658. Lommius Obs. Med. ]2mo. 1560, de Suffusione. Heister de Cataract. Gen- dron Traite des Maladies des Yeux, torn. ii. c. 22, p. 244-. Maitre-Jan Traite des Maladies d'CEil, prim. part, chap, I, p. Ill, &c. B