Cataract 1952.

Date:
1952
  • Film

About this work

Description

Two patients undergo firstly an extra and then an intra-capsular extraction with the use of acrylic lens implant on a patient. An elderly patient is prepared for the operation for an extra-capsular extraction; their eyelids are anaesthetised via injection. This is followed by the intra-capsular extraction on an elderly male patient.

Publication/Creation

1952.

Physical description

2 film reels (16 min. each) : silent, colour, 16 mm

Contributors

Notes

This film forms part of a group of films donated to the Wellcome Trust in 2006 by The British Medical Association.
An additional (better quality) copy was received as a donation in 2015.

Creator/production credits

Institute of Ophthalmology, Medical Illustration Department. A. S. Philps.

Language note

In English.

Copyright note

Institute of Ophthalmology.

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