A short but exact account of all the diseases incident to the eyes, with the causes, symptoms and cures. Also practical observations upon some extraordinary diseases of the eyes. By Sir William Read, Her Majesty's Oculist, and Operator in the Eyes in Ordinary

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• A short but exact account of all the diseases incident to the eyes, with the causes, symptoms and cures. Also practical observations upon some extraordinary diseases of the eyes. By Sir William Read, Her Majesty's Oculist, and Operator in the Eyes in Ordinary
• Treatise of the eyes
• Trait'e des maladies de l'oeil. English.

People / Organizations

• William Read (Author)

Imprint

London: printed, and sold by J. Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, [1710?]

Added name

Guillemeau, Jacques, 1550-1613.

Publication year

1710

ESTC No.

T95913

Grub Street ID

315401

Description

[8],162;3-42p. ; 8°.

Note

A reissue of the sheets of the first edition, published by Richard Barrett in 1706 under the title: 'A treatise of the eyes: .. ', with a new titlepage and with the titlepage to the second section (M1) excised

Books I-IX (pp.24-162) are reprinted from the second part of 'A treatise of one hundred and thirteene diseases of the eyes, .. ', published by Richard Bannister in 1622, itself a translation of Jacques Guillemeau's 'Trait'e des maladies de l'oeil' first published in Paris in 1585

Price from imprint: Price, Bound in Calf, 2s. 6d.