The practical details of cataract extraction / by H. Herbert.

  • Herbert, H.
Date:
1903
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Credit: The practical details of cataract extraction / by H. Herbert. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II DESCRIPTION OF THE OPERATION General Considerations—The Preparation of the Patient—Pre- liminaries—Initial Steps—The ‘ Combined ’ Operation—The Iridectomy—The Capsulotomy—The Delivery of the Lens— Toilet of the Eye—Dressing and After-Treatment. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. The path to success in this, the capital operation of eye surgery, is so beset with pitfalls and hedged in with difficulties and dangers that even the experienced surgeon can scarcely hope to maintain throughout quite loo per cent, of good results in dealing with uncompli- cated cataracts only. Supposing that his precautions are worked out with mathematical exactitude and accuracy, he is always to an appreciable degree dependent on the good behaviour of the patient. And there are many eyes to be placed apart in reckoning results, owing to limitations imposed by associated opacities or disease. A brief glance over the chief sources of failure may serve to give some idea of the relative importance of rules and practices followed hereafter. B.A.D Results may be due to— I. Defective Operation, particularized in— [a) Incovvect Method; especially (i) inefficient measures for securing antisepsis or asepsis, or (2) inherent defects in the operative technique adopted.