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Title: The Indian operation of couching for cataract

Author: Robert Henry Elliot

Release date: December 9, 2023 [eBook #72361]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1918

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By the Same Author

SCLERO-CORNEAL TREPHINING IN THE OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF GLAUCOMA, 1913. Second Edition, 1914. George Pulman and Sons, London.

GLAUCOMA: DIGEST OF THE YEAR’S LITERATURE. The Ophthalmic Yearbook, 1913–1916. Herrick Book and Stationery Company, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

GLAUCOMA: A HANDBOOK FOR THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER, 1917. H. K. Lewis and Co. Ltd., London.

GLAUCOMA: A TEXTBOOK FOR THE STUDENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY. (Now in the press.) H. K. Lewis and Co. Ltd., London.

PLATE I.

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Fig. 1.—The positions of the patient, operator, and assistant, as depicted by Bartisch (Albertotti).

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Fig. 2.—To illustrate the method of introducing the needle in Bartisch’s operation (Albertotti). The cataract is in situ in the right eye, and couched in the left eye.

THE INDIAN OPERATION OF COUCHING FOR CATARACT

INCORPORATING
THE HUNTERIAN LECTURES
DELIVERED BEFORE THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND ON
FEBRUARY 19 AND 21, 1917
BY
ROBERT HENRY ELLIOT
M.D., B.S. Lond., Sc.D. Edin., F.R.C.S. Eng., etc.
Lieut.-Colonel I.M.S. (retired)
LATE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE GOVERNMENT OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MADRAS;
LATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, MEDICAL COLLEGE, MADRAS; AND LATE FELLOW OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS;
HONORARY FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND OTOLARYNGOLOGY.
WITH 45 ILLUSTRATIONS
PAUL B. HOEBER
67 & 69 EAST 59TH STREET
NEW YORK 1918

Printed in England

To
E. C. I. E.

To

E. TREACHER COLLINS, Esq., f.r.c.s. eng.,

IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE ASSISTANCE
WHICH HIS WORK ON THE PATHOLOGY OF THE EYE
HAS BEEN TO ALL WHO DESIRE TO ADVANCE THE
SCIENCE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY