On Some Modifications in the Usual Method of Extraction of Senile Cataract

left behind, and the adaptation.of the wound. The incision in the ej'e was made just outside the sclero-corneal junction, and it was rightly supposed that the peripheral position of the incision?lying as it did in the plane of the crystalline lens?enabled the cataract to be delivered without rotation on its axis. It was however noticed that these little advantages due to the position and form of the incision were greatly counterbalanced by certain other disadvantages, as the escape of vitreous and the difficulty of preventing the iris from being entangled between the lips of the wound. Owing to these facts, this operation, I believe, has now been practically abandoned by surgeons, who generally prefer to extract the cataract b}7 the 3-millimetre flap operation first brought to the notice of the profession by Dr. Wecker.