Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Cataract Extraction: Being a Series of Papers With Discussion and Comments Read Before the Ophthalmology Section of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1907-1908
The editor, during his incumbency of the office of presi dent of the Section of Ophthalmology, New York Academy of Medicine, 1907, instituted a symposium on cataract extraction. A different surgeon was selected to read a paper on each occasion, and that paper and the discussion which followed it constituted the main feature of the evening. It was attempted to select each essayist with a View to his peculiar aptness to present the part of the subject which, by reason of experience or training, he was best fitted to handle, and the sequence of the papers was arranged as far as possible in the order in which a surgeon would perform the operation.
After the chapter on the technic of the operation, the editor has taken the liberty of interpolating the description of a specially constructed lance-shaped keratome with which he has recently extracted cataract successfully.
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