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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    caufes of many difeafes very different from their conceptions, and led us to modes of cure, which prove their doctrines fallacious—■ Why then in thefe cafes retain their terms ? They ferve only to perplex and bewilder the young ftudent, and occafion him to wafte his time in ufelefs enquiries.—This mould, by all means, be avoided, and we mould ra- ther inceflantly labor to conftitute a path to medical fcience pleafant, ealy, and the moil certain—all of which are neceflary in purfuits already wrapt up, with all our aids, in too much obfcurity. The Editor's attention in this work, has not been folely directed to terms; but he has not thought it unworthy of his care to form a new arrangement, by which means he might (hew the feat of the difeafe; a matter eflentially neceflary in the art of heal- ing—In doing this he has been under the neceflity of inserting in the annexed table, the fame difeafe repeatedly, according to the particular parts in which it was known to form itfelf; not at the fame time neglect- ing the clafs and order as obferved by Sau- vages,