Credit
Cataract 1952. Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.
Credit
Cataract 1952. Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.
Two patients undergo firstly an extra and then an intra-capsular extraction with the use of acrylic lens implant on a patient. An elderly patient is prepared for the operation for an extra-capsular extraction; their eyelids are anaesthetised via injection. This is followed by the intra-capsular extraction on an elderly male patient.