Nouveau Traité des Maladies des Yeux. Où l'on expose leur Structure, leur Usage, les Causes de leurs Maladies, leurs Symptômes, les Remèdes et les Opérations de Chirurgie qui conviennent le plus à leur guérison. Avec de nouvelles Découvertes sur la Structure de l'Oeil, qui prouvent l'Organe immédiat de la Vue. Par Mr. de Saint-Yves, Chirurgien Oculiste de Saint Côme. Nouvelle édition. Augmentée de l'Histoire d'un Remède pour les maux des Yeux, et contre la morsure du chien enragé. Traduit de l'Anglais par M. Cantwel. [Suivi de: "Histoire d'un Remède très efficace pour la Faiblesse et la Rougeur des Yeux et autres Maladies du même Organe avec un remède infaillible contre la morsure du chien enragé par le Chevalier Hans Sloane"].

Saint-Yves, Charles de / Sir Hans Sloane of Killyleagh.

Published by Amsterdam et Leipzik, Arkstée et Merkus., 1767

Nouvelle édition. 2 Volumes en 1 / Two Volumes in one. Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). XXXVI, [6], 309, 30 pp. Reliure originale / Original, very decorative 18th century binding with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Tres bon exemplaire / Unusually excellent version of this book with the publication by Sir Hans Sloane bound in the back of the Volume. Garrison - Morton 5827 (First Edition 1722): "Records the removal of a cataract "en masse" from a living subject". Charles Saint-Yves, or Charles de Saint-Yves, (1667 August 3, 1731) was a French ophthalmologist, famous for his treatment of the cataract and his treatise on ophthalmology. At the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, it became more and more clear that sight was not located in the lens, but that the deterioration of the latter was the actual cause of the cataract. In Paris, notably Pierre Brisseau (1631 1717) introduced his conclusions from eye dissection to the Academy of Medicine in 1705, before publishing a Traité de la Cataracte et du Glaucome (Treatise on cataracts and glaucoma, 1709), to be followed by Antoire Maître-Jean (Traité des maladies de l'oeil, Treatise on eye pathologies, 1707). These ideas allowed the introduction of new surgical treatments, and Saint-Yves achieved a first extract of a dislocated lens on a living patient in 1707 and stabilised his operating technique over a couple of hundred cases that first year. He also advised famous surgeon Jean-Louis Petit in his operation of the cataract in 1708. Cataract operation quickly spread in Paris afterwards. The Encyclopedia mentions Saint-Yves, as follows: "Among French authors, Saint-Yves was the only one who provided details on its operating more, although limited ones. He was pushing a needle through the globe in order to raise while pulling out the cristalline; He does not provide any further information on the process, but confirms that patient were quickly healed. / Parmi les auteurs françois, il n'y a que Saint-Yves, qui soit entré dans quelques détails très-succincts, fur la pratique de cette opération. Il pastoit, au moyen d'une aiguille , une foie à travers le globe pour le soulever pendant l'extirpation ; il ne décrit point le procédé qu'il suivoit, & il se borne a dire ,que les malades font guéris en peu de temps." Based on such experience and his large fame, Saint-Yves published in 1722 a treatise of descriptive pathology that durably set out as a pillar of the French school of ophthalmology : Nouveau traité des maladies des yeux où l'on expose leur structure, leur usage, les causes de leurs maladies, leurs symptômes, les remèdes et les opérations de chirurgie qui conviennent le plus à leur guérison, avec de nouvelles découvertes sur la structure de l'oeil, qui prouvent l'organe immédiat de la vue, par Mr de Saint-Yves, chirurgien occultiste de Saint Côme (New treatise of eye pathologies, with description of eye structures and uses, the origins of their illnesse along with their symptoms, the most appropriate remedies and surgery treatments, including new discoveries concerning eye structure that prove the exact location of sight, by Mr de Saint-Yves, eye surgeon at Saint-Côme). The first edition, in French was published in Paris in 1722, and followed by new editions in Amsterdam (1736) and Leipzig (1767). After a minor argument in Paris gazette le Mercure de France, Saint-Yves book became a reference across Europe and was translated in several languages, namely in English (London 1741 et 1744), German (Berlin 1730), Italian (Venise 1750, 1768 et 1781), or Dutch (1739). (Wikipedia) The added title in the rear of the volume is the first french edition of Sloane's publication "Account of a Medicine for Soreness, Weakness and other Distempers of the Eyes" (London, 1745), and the french title translates here as "History of a Very Effective Remedy for Weakness and Redness of the Eyes and Other Diseases of the Same Organ with a Foolproof Cure for Rabid Dog Bite by Knight Hans Sloane". Sir Hans Slo. Seller Inventory # 29245AB

Bibliographic Details

Title: Nouveau Traité des Maladies des Yeux. Où ...
Publisher: Amsterdam et Leipzik, Arkstée et Merkus.
Publication Date: 1767
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition