‎MAITRE-JAN (A.)‎
‎Traité des maladies de l'oeil et des remèdes propres pour leur guérison enrichi d'expériences de physique -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- BON EXEMPLAIRE DE FORMAT IN 4 GRAND DE MARGES‎

‎Troye, Lefebvre, 1707, un volume grand in 4 (19,5 cm x 26 cm), relié en pleine basane, dos orné de fers dorés (reliure de l'époque), (petit accroc à la partie inférieure du dos, déchirure marginale d'origine à un feuillet sans manque de papier, petit défaut de papier d'origine dans la marge d'un feuillet), (6), 593pp., (1pp.)‎

Reference : 5409

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- LES EXEMPLAIRES DE FORMAT IN 4 SONT RARES ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE GRAND DE MARGES ---- GARRISON N° 5824 : "The Father of French ophthalmology..." ---- Heirs of Hippocrates N° 677 : "The most complet and accurate compendium on ophthalmology of its day, this 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... Before the late seventeenth century it was thought that a cataract was an opaque skin within the capsule of the optic lens. Although Maître-Jan proved by postmortem examination in 1692 that the cataract was a clouding and hardening of the lens itself, it was not until Michel Brisseau's work on the same subject in 1709 that the medical community accepted it as fact. The method of treatment 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"**5409/ARM3‎