Nosologia methodica oculorum: or, a treatise on the diseases of the eyes, selected and translated from the Latin of Francis Bossier 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.

  • 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 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (^n 4) terminations, and otherwife modifying fo- reign words, he has alfo imitated the an- tient and fome of the modern authors in compounding terms, that the difeafes, from their very names, may be as well underftood by the Englifh reader, as by the more learn- ed and thefe he has contrived fo as to exprefs either the parts affe&ed, the caufes from whence they originated, or the effects produced, each of which kept clofeft to, or gave the moft clear idea of the word origi- nally ufed. Andas the medical profeffion is not, as formerly, confined to men of erudi- tion, nay, indeed, fome of our very teachers in its different branches, affect to laugh at, and defpife, claflical knowledge ; works of this nature, reduced to a comimon ftandard, in refpe& to language, become more necef- fary, that the terras which diftinguifh thofe maladies fuch practitioners. are called to re- lieve, may by them at leaft be underftood ; befides it would even affift the younger branches in difcovering the nature of the difeafe ; very often be expreffive of the caufe, and point out the virtues neceflary in the ap- pigs and indeed become a medicina] epitome;