A Symposium on the Extraction of Senile Cataract

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Excerpt from A Symposium on the Extraction of Senile Cataract: Being a Complete Report of the Papers and Discussions Presented Before the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 20, 1911 The president was instructed by the society to appoint a com mittee to arrange for the publication of the papers and discus sions. This committee was composed of three members, Drs. W. A. Fisher, Casey Wood, and Chas. H. Beard. The editor acknowledges his indebtedness to these members, and also to Dr. J. Herbert Claiborne, who edited a similar volume in 1908 which represented the work of the Ophthalmological Section of the New York Academy of Medicine. While there are many steps in the operation under discussion upon which there may never be an absolute unanimity of opin ion, much can be learned from the methods of different operators. The operation of intracapsular extraction may never be uni versally adopted in this country. It has, however, done much to awaken thought and shows the possibility of improvement in an almost perfected operation. It has, as the contents of this book will show, brought out in almost every paper some reference to a change of more or less importance in technic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.