Description
The small volume by Benevenutus of Jerusalem should interest us because it was, in its various editions of script and print, for over five hundred years the most popular ophthalmic manual of the Middle Ages. We are acquainted with about forty texts of this important tractate – twenty-two manuscripts and about eighteen printed editions. Some of the former are incomplete, one is an mere fragment, and two others have been lost. As is the case with all ancient and medieval codices and printed books, there are very few copies of the Benevenutus texts in existence.
The position held by the Benevenutus treatise in the esteem of medieval surgeons was undoubtedly very high. It was to them a practical handbook of ophthalmic practice, written by the most famous oculist and cataract operator of his day; and from all points of view, popular and professional, it outranked the writings of Jesus Hali, Alcanamosali, Alkoatim, John de Peckham, or any other contemporary. A study of this monograph is, accordingly, indispensable to a proper understanding of the history of ophthalmology and its progress from the tenth to the twentieth centuries.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work:
Title: Benevenutus Grass De Oculis, Eorumque Egritudinibus et Curis
Author: Benevenutus Grassus of Jerusalem, Casey W. Wood
Editor and Translator: Casey W. Wood
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1929
ISBN: 0804734984
Contents
TRANSLATORS PREFACE 3
THE LIFE AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER OF BENEVENUTUS GRASSUS 13
DE OCULIS 22
I THE iNCIPIT OF THE FERRARA TEXT 27
II DESCRIPTION OF AND OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE EYE 28
iv ON CATARACT 31
v ON THE TREATMENT OF CATARACT 32
vi THE OPERATION FOR CATARACT 33
viI OF THE SECOND FORM OF WHITE CATARACT 36
iX OF THE FOURTH VARIETY OF CATARACT 37
X ON THE FIRST KIND OF INCURABLE CATARACT 38
XI ON THE SECOND VARIETY OF INCURABLE CATARACT 39
xiI ON THE THIRD FORM OF INCURABLE CATARACT 4O
niI ON OTHER AFFECTIONS OR ACCIDENTS PRURITUS PALPEBRARUM 40
xiv ON OPHTHALMIA 42
XV ON CALICO OR OBSCURITY OF THE EYES FOLLOWING OPHTHALMIA 44
XVI THE PANICULI OR FORMS OF GRANULAR CONJUNCTIV1TIS THE FIRST VARIETY 45
XVIII TREATMENT OF THE FIRST PANICULUs 46
XX ON THE SECOND FORM OF PANICULUs 47
XXI OF THE THIRD PANICULUs 48
XXII OF THE FOURTH PANICULUS AND ITS TREATMENT 50
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