Table 2: Development of concepts related to cataract and glaucoma.

  Years of Publication* Cataract Described as Anterior to the Crystalline Humor. Summary of Concepts Related to the Modern Conception of Glaucoma.
The Methode of Phisicke. Adapted from Benevenutus Grassus (1100s or 1200s) by Philip Barrough. [3] 1583, 1590, 1596, 1601, 1610, (1616), 1617, 1624, (1626), (1633), 1634, 1639, 1652. Yes. Some eye disease is incurable.
A Worthy Treatise of the Eyes. Translation of Guillemeau. [7] 1587, (1616), 1622, (1626), (1633), 1706, 1710. Yes. Glaucoma is a term implying incurability.
Richard Banister’s Breviary. [20] 1622, 1706, 1710. Yes. The hard eye is incurable.
John Thomas Woolhouse. [25, 26] 1707, 1721. Yes. Glaucoma implies at most a palliative cure, and, in some cases, a hard eye.

* Only one reference is listed for multiple editions which varied only in spelling. (Parentheses indicate years in which a publication drew heavily upon extended excerpt of reference text without attribution).