SHARP, Samuel.

A description of a new method of opening the cornea, in order to extract the crystalline humour ... [and:] A second account of the new method of opening the cornea, for taking away the cataract.

[London,] 1753. 4to, pp. 161-63, and 322-331; one woodcut illustration; modern marbled boards. FIRST EDITION of Sharp's articles on the surgical treatment of cataract, extracted from the Philosophical Transactions. Sharp was the most famous pupil of Cheselden continuing his studies at Paris, and then becoming surgeon on Guy's Hospital. His Covent Garden lectures to naval surgeons were direct antecedent of William Hunter's Great Windmill school of surgery. He introduced several innovations to surgical practice. Among them he was the first to cut out the cornea with a knife in operations for cataract.

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