Observations on the cataract, and gutta serena : including a translation of Wenzel's treatise on the cataract : a new chapter on the operation of largely puncturing the capsule of the crystalline humour : and many additional remarks on the gutta serena / by James Ware.

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1812
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Credit: Observations on the cataract, and gutta serena : including a translation of Wenzel's treatise on the cataract : a new chapter on the operation of largely puncturing the capsule of the crystalline humour : and many additional remarks on the 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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    original work. These additions, I hope* will not prove unacceptable. In perusing the Treatise, the reader will perceive, that the Baron has confined himself almost entirely to a description of the mode in which the operation may be best performed in the various states of the disorder; and has rarely deviated from this line, either to mark the errors of former operators, or the accidents to which those are liable, who, adopting his father's plan, have not at the same time attained his father's dexterity. In the different departments of surgery, however, as well as in those of common life, it is of no small importance to be acquainted with the mistakes of others. Under this impression, I have for a long time accustomed myself to commit to writing every accident or mistake that has fallen within my observation, and lias appeared to me worthy to be remem- bered ;