On the cure of cataract, with a practical summary of the best modes of operating, (Contintental and British).

  • Neill, Hugh
Date:
1848
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Credit: On the cure of cataract, with a practical summary of the best modes of operating, (Contintental and British). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    hoped to be attained, is equally well promoted by a lower incision, provided care be taken to obviate the introduction of the edge of the lid within the wound. The operation also presents greater difficulty on account of the projecting edge of the orbit, which may be such as to render the incision impracticable. With reference to blending the first two stages of the operation, it offers numerous disadvantages which should dictate its rejection. By introducing the point of the knife into the pupil to open the crystalline-capsule before the section of the cornea is completed, this last membrane is disturbed—issue is given to the aqueous humor— and it becomes matter of difficulty to terminate the operation without damage to the iris. upper Kera- The second process i upper Keratomy) was first per- toray as per- r ' rr r sIStabelm f°rme(i by Santarelli. [a] Professor Jaeger revived and brought it to perfection. [•>] in what it The operation consists in cutting the upper semi-cir- cumference of the cornea, and is performed precisely like that which I have described—with this difference: the blade of the knife is turned upwards to form an incision in the upper part of the cornea, which is as easily [a] G. G. Santarelli, Ricerche Journal der Chirurgie, &c, 1827. per facililare il cateterisrno e la Tom. ix. p. 547 ; et J. N. Seeli- estrazione della cateralta. Vienna, ger. Uebersichtl der verschie- 1795. denen Staarausziehungs—Metho- den, nebst praktischeno. Belegen, [h] Grjeffe und Walthers &c. Wien, 1828.