Nosologia methodica oculorum, or, A treatise on the diseases of the eyes / selected and translated from the Latin of Francis Bossier [sic] de Sauvages; wherein the whole are methodically arranged : to which are also added, the descriptions and modes of cure, as recited by those authors who have written professedly on the various subjects herein enumerated : with annotations, by George Wallis, M.D. No. 53. Broad-Street, Soho.

  • Boissier de la Croix de Sauvages, François, 1706-1767.
Date:
1785
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Credit: Nosologia methodica oculorum, or, A treatise on the diseases of the eyes / selected and translated from the Latin of Francis Bossier [sic] de Sauvages; wherein the whole are methodically arranged : to which are also added, the descriptions and modes of cure, as recited by those authors who have written professedly on the various subjects herein enumerated : with annotations, by George Wallis, M.D. No. 53. Broad-Street, Soho. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    epitome, generally ufeful, and always Satis- factory. On the other hand, fome indeed pay fo blind and fo flavifli an obedience to the an- tients, that they labor not only to preferve thofe terms which are trifling, and extremely inexpreffive, but a'lfo apply them to the dif- eafes to which they were total ftrangers ;— to thefe probably this attempt may be offen- five ; fo would the moft indefatigable appli- cation in the fearch of truth, unclogged with the lumber of antiquity—like a large Gothic pile, which ftrikes the eye of the antiqua- rian with grandeur from the ufelefs mafs of matter with which it is loaded ; fo the ears of thofe men are delighted with the founds of rumbling confonants inadequate to the idea familiar words would more plainly convey. And this rauft be the cafe, if we confider the errors into which the antients were na- turally led by their various hypothefes built not upon experiment, but ingenious con- ceit.— The improvements of later times have fupplied us with information unknown to them have given us to underftand the caufes