Cataract Operations in Outlying Dispensaries

rous attack, in your July issue, on my article headed " Sixtyone eye operations in one day" and which yoti were kind enough to publish about 2 years ago. The references he quotes to belittle my results, viz., (a) 1903 statistics, a period when conjunctival asepsis was almost in its infancy and operative technique was not so widely possessed, (b) Norris and Olivers, Vol. Ill, a system on ophthalmology which was published in 1897 when septic infection was not uncommon and (c) his own experience of only 150 extractions in 4 years, vide page *250, Indian Medical Gazette, July 1909, would more than merit a reply as follows (a) Look more ahead for figures, for cataract results have consideiably improved since 1897 and even 1903. (b) One has scarcely learnt the A.B. C. of cataract work in his first 500 extractions. (c) Do not go to print till you have had more up-to-date experience in mofussil eye surgery. (d) From a practical standpoint, and from the view of the specialist, the " layman " referred to by him and the writer, are for all practical purposes the same individual. (e) The dogmas he indulges in after an experience of 150 extractions since 1905, reminds me of the American eyesurgeon who finally condemned intracapsular extraction after doing 10 operations. (/) No doubt my article must have caused a sensation in his