An improved method of extraction of cataract : with results of 107 operations / by J.R. Wolfe.

  • Wolfe, J. R. (John Reisberg), 1824-1904.
Date:
1868
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An improved method of extraction of cataract : with results of 107 operations / by J.R. Wolfe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    9/120
    PREFACE. The very favourable notice which these papers received from the French Medical Press on their appearance in the columns of The Lancet, encourages me to republish them in this collected form. The discovery of the Ophthalmoscope, by enabling us to ascertain accurately the condition of the deep- seated structures of the eye, has given an impulse to the cultivation of all branches of ophthalmic science, from which, so important an operation as that for the cure of cataract could not remain excluded. Indeed, so numerous have been the modifications introduced within a short period, that no small amount of confusion has resulted. Operation after operation has been brought forward, lauded as an improvement, and then abandoned, so that only a careful study of the progress of this branch of surgery will prevent one practising operations which had been abandoned as use- less by their projectors. I have, therefore, in the first place, given a succinct account of the various operations that have from time to time been introduced, and have