GLAUCOMA, or GLAUCOSIS, from glaukos, a sky-blue colour. Mr Sharp, in his Operations of Surgery, p. 158—163, says, that the glaucoma of the ancient Greeks is the suffuso of the Latins, and the cataracta.
Glaucus cataract of the present times. See (Index subjoined to) MEDICINE and SURGERY. Mr St Yves says, it is a cataract accompanied with a gutta serena; according to which nothing need be added, except that, in such a case, the operation and all other means are useless, except to ease pain, and to mend the figure of the eye.