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

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    faculty at large, by arranging them in a re- gular order, and offering them in their pre- sent form to the notice of the public. These memoranda, under the title of an Ctf In- quiry into the Causes which have most H commonly prevented Success in the Ope- <; ration of Extracting the Cataract; with an Account of the Means by which they may either be obviated or rectified ;** were first published in the year 1795 ; they were re-published in the year 1804; and they now appear for the third time in 1812, with a few alterations and additions. In the present volume I have added to the original Inquiry a compressed list of the memoranda it contains, under the title of Mementos ; and these, for many years, I have made it a constant rule to peruse, on the morning of every day in which I was engaged to perform the operation. To each Memento I have thought it advisable to subjoin a brief exposition of its use and importance ;—but as it may not be neces-