Jacques Daviel and the beginnings of the modern operation of extraction of cataract / Alvin A. Hubble.

  • Hubbell, Alvin A. (Alvin Allace), 1846-1911.
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[1908]
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    JACQUES DAVIEL AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MODEEN OPERATION OF EX- TRACTION OF CATARACT. AN ADDRESS COMMEMORATIVE OF THE THIRD SEMI-CEN- TENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE OPERATION.* ALVIN A. HUBBELL, Ph.D., M.D. Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Buffalo; Oph- thalmic Surgeon to the Charity Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, Etc. BUFFALO, N. Y. The year 1902 marks the third semi-centennial anni- versary of the occasion on whicli Jacques Daviel promul- gated to the world, through the Royal Academy of Sur- gery of Paris, A New Method of Curing Cataract hy Extracting the Crystalline Lens. It is most fitting that the ophthalmologists of the United States., and, indeed, of the civilized world, recognize the event ancT pay tribute to the genius of the author. Daviel be- queathed to surgery one of its richest acquisitions and to- humanity one of its most beneficent legacies. But I fear that both he and his benefaction are too slightingly re- membered. In my studies of his life during the past few years- I have been surprised that so little has been said about' him, even by his contemporaries, and that the memory of him has been permitted to lapse to such an extend • Read at the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Amerlcam Medical Association, In the Section on Ophthalmology, and ap- proved for puhlicatlon by the Executive Committee: Drs. Casey Av.