Practical inquiry into the causes of the frequent failure of the operations of depression, and of the extraction of the cataract, as usually performed : with the description of a series of new and improved operations, by the practice of which, most of the causes of failure may be avoided, illustrated by tables of the comparative success of the new and old modes of practice / by Sir William Adams.

  • Adams, William, Sir, 1783-1827.
Date:
1817
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    the utmost delicacy and sensibility, to unne- cessary risk and violence, by performing an operation which merely possesses the advan- tage of at once removing the cataract, in preference to another, of a milder nature, and equally efficacious, though requiring to be repeated, would evince a degree of rashness, deservedly subjecting the operator to the censure of the profession, and to the distrust of the public—but, on the other hand, w hen those, who, from their professional knowledge and experience, have had opportunities of acquiring correct information, continue, from an obstinate adherence to former opinions, to practise and recommend, in publica- tions and lectures, that operation which experience has sufficiently proved, not only requires to be repeated, too often ten or twelve times, but w^hich not unfrequently subjects the patient to the most severe and dangerous inflanmiation, while, even when successfully accomplished to the full extent of the directions given, it leaves the eye in a very imperfect state for the general purposes of vision — they, by such con- duct, evince a want of that proper feeling which all surgeons should possess, but more