page_title: Charles Saint-Yves
section_title: Treaty of pathology
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Saint-Yves / Treaty of pathology
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: frontispice de la deuxième édition du Traité de Charles saint-Yves sur les maladies des yeux, 1736
context_page_description: Charles Saint-Yves, or Charles de Saint-Yves, was a French ophthalmologist, famous for his treatment of the cataract and his treatise on ophthalmology.
context_section_description: Based on such experience and his large fame, Saint-Yves published in 1722 a treatise of descriptive pathology that durably set out as a pillar of the French school of ophthalmology : Nouveau traité des maladies des yeux où l'on expose leur structure, leur usage, les causes de leurs maladies, leurs symptômes, les remèdes  et les opérations de chirurgie qui conviennent le plus à leur guérison, avec de nouvelles découvertes sur la structure de l'oeil, qui prouvent l'organe immédiat de la vue, par Mr de Saint-Yves, chirurgien occultiste de Saint Côme (New treatise of eye pathologies, with description of eye structures and uses, the origins of their illnesse along with their symptoms, the most appropriate remedies and surgery treatments, including new discoveries concerning eye structure that prove the exact location of sight, by Mr de Saint-Yves, eye surgeon at Saint-Côme).
  The first edition, in French was published in Paris in  1722, and followed by new editions in  Amsterdam (1736) and Leipzig (1767).
  After a minor argument in Paris gazette le Mercure de France, Saint-Yves book became a reference across Europe and was translated in several languages, namely in English (London 1741 et 1744), German (Berlin 1730), Italian (Venise 1750, 1768 et 1781), or Dutch (1739).
caption: Charles de Saint-Yves, Traité des maladies des yeux, 2nd edition 1736
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