On the certainty and safety with which the operation for the extraction of a cataract from the human eye may be performed, and on the means by which it is to be accomplished / by G.J. Guthrie ; with remarks by Captain Kater on certain spots discoverable in the human eye, and on the manner of detecting their situation.
- George James Guthrie
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the certainty and safety with which the operation for the extraction of a cataract from the human eye may be performed, and on the means by which it is to be accomplished / by G.J. Guthrie ; with remarks by Captain Kater on certain spots discoverable in the human eye, and on the manner of detecting their situation. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I ?asily removed by mild astringent ai)plications, and i !)y exchanging tiie bandage for a green shade, which I rovers both eyes from the light, but readily admits i;:he access of fresh air. It should be remembered i.Lhat the eye is not accustomed to be bound up, or jKkept closed, and that the sooner the bandage can be [idispensed with the better; but on this point the tjpatient's own feelings, of advantage or disadvantage, [ will be the best guide. The room in which the ilpatient is placed should be darkened at first, and hwhen the bandages are removed, and a shade substi- iiituted, he may gradually admit a greater degree of jllight, as he finds it agreeable; but he should proceed ilby degrees, exercising the eye but little, and living ^sparingly. The loss of the lens must be supplied by I]proper spectacles, which should not be fitted to the Steves for several weeks after the cure has been i;accomplished, in order to give time for the eye to jirecover as much as possible from the operation. I The power of adjustment will be however lost, i and two pairs of spectacles will be required, one i;for near and one for distant objects. Young ^people often recover very good sight; and in 4 one instance I have seen the lens reproduced. ! The young woman in whom this took place, I Ann Whalley, aged 23, came under my care nine ^years ago, when 14 years old, having congenital I cataracts of both eyes, on which I operated with ! success. Some circumstance induced her mother to. go out of town suddenly, before the eyes were quite clear, and I did not see her again f imtil the 11th of IMarch last, when a small](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22274029_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
