A practical treatise on cataract / By John Stevenson.

  • Stevenson, John, 1778-1846?
Date:
1813
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Credit: A practical treatise on cataract / By John Stevenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vocates, Surgeons of the highest professional celebrity, who all admit that both are liable* like all other important operations, to oc¬ casional inconveniences and disappointments. The objections made to Depression are, its uncertain and precarious result, added to the injury always done to the vitreous humour, occasionally to the iris, and sometimes even to the retina.—The objections to Extraction are not less pointed. The difficulty of per¬ forming it is considerable, and the conse¬ quences often calamitous; to this we may add, its inapplicability to certain forms of the disease, and the impossibility of restoring any parts which may have been injured by the operation. Lastly, it is admitted, that nei¬ ther Couching nor Extraction can with safe¬ ty be attempted in early infancy. The object of every operation for the radical cure of Cataract must be ultimately the same, viz. the permanent removal of the opake substance from the axis of vision. And that mode of operating is undoubtedly the most eligible, which can be accomplished with the greatest facility, with the smallest degree of present pain and future danger, and which can be adapted to the different species of Cataract; thus combining every