Monteath's Translation of Weller: An Underappreciated Trove of Ophthalmology Lexicon

In 1819, German ophthalmologist Carl Heinrich Weller recorded European ophthalmic teaching, including that of his mentor, Georg Josef Beer of Vienna, Austria.¹ Weller's treatise was translated by Scottish ophthalmologist George C. Monteath in 1821.^2,3 We searched Monteath's text for modern ophthalmic terms not present in earlier major English works. We searched for terms in the Oxford English Dictionary online,⁴ Google Scholar,⁵ Google Books,⁶ Gale Eighteenth Century Collections Online,⁷ and ophthalmic texts on the Internet Archive.⁸