Thursday, August 25, 2011
Being one of the oldest surgical
procedures in medicine, cataract surgery has certainly came a long way
from the procedures described in Sanskrit manuscripts dating from the 5th century BC
by the ancient Indian surgeon Shusruta. In this procedures called
“couching”, the lens was simply dislodged to the back of the eye and
left there. The results were patients who could make out colours and
shapes (if their eye sight wasn’t lost completely) – certainly much
better than no vision at all!
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