Category: History - Other
The operation of couching for cataract is one of the most ancient procedures known to surgery, the earliest description of the method being that given by Celsus, a contemporary of Christ’s. The first historical mention of ophthalmic surgeons was in Alexandria, at the time when...
The operation of couching for cataract is one of the most ancient procedures known to surgery, the earliest description of the method being that given by Celsus, a contemporary...
2. CHAPTER IIThe writer has never seen a native coucher at work, and consequently all his information on the subject has had to be gathered from those who have been more fortunate than himse...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe coucher goes by different names in different parts of India. In Bengal and in the United and Central Provinces he is known as the “suttya” or “mal,” and in the Punjab as the...
4. CHAPTER IVIn the _Indian Medical Gazette_ of August, 1906, the writer published a review of 125 cases of couching of the lens by Indian vaidyans. On March 13, 1912, the total had swollen...
5. CHAPTER V_The material at our disposal consists of 54 globes_, the great majority of which were removed in the Madras Ophthalmic Hospital in the period from 1911 to 1915, though some are...
6. CHAPTER VIThe diagnosis of a case of couched cataract presents the surgeon with three distinct problems: (1) To ascertain whether a couching has been done or not; (2) to discover the new...
7. CHAPTER VII=Pain.=--The pain which follows the operation of couching has attracted the attention of surgeons from very early times, and there has been much speculation as to its cause. Whe...