Dr. De Wecker's cataract operation with the statistical statement of the results / by Dr. Masselon ; translated by H. Macnaughton Jones.

  • Masselon, J. (Julien), 1844-1917.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Dr. De Wecker's cataract operation with the statistical statement of the results / by Dr. Masselon ; translated by H. Macnaughton Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G CATARACTS, During the year 1876, 260 operations for cataract were: performed at the Clinique. These operations may be> classed as follows :— Simple Cataracts . . .222 Complicated „ . . .15 Traumatic „ • . . 1 Congenital „ . . .4 Zonular „ • . • 1 Secondary „ . . .17 Not including the congenital cataracts and the zonulart one, for which “ discision ” has been used, the others,' with the exception of the secondary ones, have been:: operated upon by extraction. The secondary cataractsi have all been dealt with by the “ capsulotome,” except i in one case, in which a very light film existed, for which: discision was resorted to. Simple Cataracts—222. Except in four cases, in which simple linear extraction! has been employed, the other simple cataracts have beem extracted sometimes by the peripheral flap method, some- times by that of De Graefe. These 218 cataracts are- thus found divided exactly into two equal groups of 109v each, so that De Gra&tVs method has been used precisely; the same number of times as extraction by the peripheral flap. We may dispose at once of the simple linear extractiona by saying that we have not had a single accident. In one case the vision equalled 2-5ths, in another, 1-lOth! (an old choroidal atrophy existed, localised towards the