The Extraction of the Lens in Its Capsule (Smith's Operation) by Division of the Suspensory Ligament
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To the Editor o/"The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?I was much interested in Captain Nesfield's article tinder the above title in the July number of the Indian Medical Gazette just received. My experience has been much the same as his, namely?, that with the amount of pressure I was prepared to apply, I was able to deliver the lens in its capsule successfully in only about one case in ten. I was led in the same way to consider some modification of Smith's operation that would get over the resistance of the suspensory ligament; and it occurred to me to do this operation, which has now been
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The Extraction of the Lens in Its Capsule (Smith's Operation) by Division of the Suspensory Ligament
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