Author: MAÎTRE-JAN, ANTOINE.- Ophthalmology.-
Title: Traité des maladies de l'oeil et des remedes propres pour leur guérison. Enrichi de plusieurs expériences de physique.
Description: Paris, Chez Le Breton, premier imprimeur ordinaire du Roi, 1740. 12mo. Contemp. full marbl. clf., spine in compartments, gilt, w. spine label in red. (Lower outer hinges partly split; top of spine some dam.). [a4, b1, A - Z12, Aa1]. (X, 554 pp.). (pp. 528 - 554 index). (Marbl. endp.; all edges red; inner hinges weakening.). Third edition. G&M comp. 5824 (1st ed. 1707): 'Called "The Father of French ophthalmology", Maître-Jan energetically supported Brisseau's doctrine, ensuring its acceptance. As far back as 1692, Maître-Jan had proved that the opaque lens is cataract, but before Brisseau's work appeared [1709] it had been regarded as a sort of skin or pellicle immediately inside the capsule of the lens.': Hirschberg para 327, 358: Hirschberg/Blodi III, 225-29: 'The first modern textbook of ophthalmology ... [He is the first] to describe the circulation of ocular fluids in a textbook on ophthalmology ... the first precise description of a cataract operation since Ammar wrote his about 700 years earlier.': Albert e.a. Source Book, comp. 1464: ' ... describes here the use of chemical fixatives, the onion-like structure of the lens and the fibrous fluid consistency of the vitreous.': Becker Coll. 243 (ed. 1707) and 244 (1740): Heirs of Hippocrates, comp. 677 (1st ed. 1707): ' ... is sometimes called father of French ophthalmology because of his many contributions to the field and for the writing of this large compendium on ophthalmology - the most complete and accurate of its day. The work contains extensive and detailed discussion of the diagnosis and surgical treatment of a wide variety of eye conditions, as well as a long section devoted to the medical treatment of cancer, infections, and injuries of the eye. Maître-Jan used poultices and dressings with compounds of such ingredients as zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, burnt rose water or beef fat for treating neoplasm, open lesions, infections, obstruction of the lacrymal ducts, and other such conditions ... [the method of treatment for cataract] described by Maître-Jan is the couching operation in which, after incising the suspensory tissues of the lens, the lens was depressed below the level of the pupil and left in place.' [Actual extraction of the lens was first reported some 13 years after the publication of the publication here offered, in 1753 by the French surgeon Jacques Daviel].:

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