# The Indian operation of couching for cataract

Author: Elliot, Robert Henry, 1864-1936

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72361

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## Summary

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 medicine and surgery underwent separation from each other in that great and flourishing city, nearly three centuries before the dawn of the Christian era, and Galen states that some of these surgeons devoted themselves exclusively to operating on cataracts. Celsus speaks of the writings of a famous Alexandrian surgeon, named Philoxenes, who lived 270 years before Christ, and from whom he apparently derived much of h...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-operation-of-couching-for-cataract-72361/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-operation-of-couching-for-cataract-72361/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-operation-of-couching-for-cataract-72361/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-operation-of-couching-for-cataract-72361/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-operation-of-couching-for-cataract-72361/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-operation-of-couching-for-cataract-72361/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-operation-of-couching-for-cataract-72361/chapters/2/index.md)