Saint-Yves, (Ch.)de. Nouveau traité des maladies des yeux, ou l'on expose leur Structure, leur Usage, les Causes de leurs Maladies, leurs Symptomes, les Remedes & les Opérations de Chirurgie qui conviennent le plus à leur guérison avec de Nouvelles Découvertes sur la Structure de l'Oeil, qui pourvent l'Organe imméfdiat de la Vue.B.M.N.I.p.324. G & M nr.5827 (ed.1722): "Records the removal of a cataract "en masse" from a living subject." Heirs nr. 732 (ed. 1722). S.-Y. treatise on diseases of the eye was well-received and by 1750 had been translated into, English, German, Dutch, and Italian. A comprehensive work, it includes early descriptions of occlusion therapy for strabismus, silver nitrate therapy for eye diseases, pupil formation in secondary cataract, conjunctivitis angularis, zoster ophthalmicus, and retinal detachment." Good copy of this enlarged and revised edition. Bound with a book by Sloane.In this book (first published in London in 1745) "Sloane asserts the healing powers of an ointment whose prescription he had purchased from a former assistant of the deceased Dr. Luc Rugeley. The ointment, consisting of the fat of vipers (which Sloane has replaced with pig lard), zinc oxide, iron oxice, and aloe, claims to remove corneal scars and assuage eye pain." Albert & Norton, nr. 2144. 2 volumes in one. EUR 80.00
