A study of the nativity, sex and age, occupation, and social condition of three thousand four hundred and thirty-six cases of senile cataract operated upon at the Wills Hospital in Philadelphia / by Charles A. Oliver.

  • Oliver, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1853-1911.
Date:
1906
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Credit: A study of the nativity, sex and age, occupation, and social condition of three thousand four hundred and thirty-six cases of senile cataract operated upon at the Wills Hospital in Philadelphia / by Charles A. Oliver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted, frorii the New York Medical Journal for OCCUPATION, AND SOCIAL CONDITION OF THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX CASES OF SENILE CATARACT OPERATED UPON AT THE WILLS HOSPITAL IN PHILADELPHIA* By Charles A. Oliver, A. M., M. D., The results given in this communication are based upon the findings which have been obtained in an extended study of three thousand four hundred and thirty-six cases of so called ordinary mature senile cataract operated on by different methods of extrac- tion by the various members of the attending staff of Wills Hospital in Philadelphia, during the past thirty-five years. All of the records of the cases from which the data have been obtained have been personally searched by the writer and four of his immediate assistants,* 1 during a period of several months time. Lenticular disturbance of both primary and sec- ondary types from coarse traumatism, and gross associated and causative local and general disease, have been excluded from the lists; while secondary cataract (not infrequently found as the result of imperfect and faulty operative methods) has not been used. The cases employed have been limited as far as possible, to those in which the usual clini- cal appearances of so called senile cataract have not been complicated by any other demonstrable expres- sion of cause and effect, than those which are signif- * Head before the June, 1900, meeting of the American Oph- thalmologlcal Society. 1 Dr. Albert J. Britt, Dr. I. Louise Haverstlck, Dr. Mary H. Thompson, and Miss Gullema F. AIsop, to whom thnnks are here given for their generous help in the research work. A STUDY-OF THE IVITY, SEX AND AGE, Philadelphia. Copyright, 1906, nr A. R. Elliott Publishing Co.