Intra-capsular Expression of Cataract.
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To the ophthalmologist all the world over the operative treatment of cataract is a subject of never-ceasing interest. In the East, and particularly in India, it forms, to many surgeons, qualified and unqualified, specialist and not, all or most of ophthalmology. Much has been, and will continue to be, written onl the subject so long as it retains a place in ophthalmic surgery. The observations set down by the contributor of this article have been made independently by him, but he does not lay claim to anything new. He well remembersseeing the collection of accouchement instruments excavated from the ruins of Pompeii which strikingly resemble those in use to-day. It would seem that the trite saying, " There is nothing new under the Sun," is none the less true. He was greatly impressed by watching the work of Col. Smith at Amritsar in 1920. In 1930 when he began work as an eyespecialist at Madura he intended to work on the lines of Smith. But, not having a trained staff nor control over it, had to give up intra-capsular extraction and fall back on the capsulotomy operation. Towards the middle of 1932 so many cases returned for needling that it became a matter of serious concern to avoid a second operation and he decided to try the intra-capsular method again. By this time the staff had come under his direction. From then on he has almost exclusively performed intra-capsular extraction. It would be better, perhaps, to say " Expression," because the lens is made to come out by graduated pressure. The method adopted by the writer, however, differs so greatly from that of Smith that it would be better to set down the details.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of ophthalmology
دوره 22 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1938