The institutes and practice of surgery: being the outlines of a course of lectures . be detached duringthe operation of couching into the anterior chamber. Glcizealso, as well as Scarpa, Hey, and others, followed the samepractice. But it is chiefly owing to Saunders, Conradi,and Adams, that this mode of removing the cataract hasbeen brought to its present degree of perfection. There are two operations in use, each founded upon theabsorbent principle—the anterior and posterior. Thefirst, or the operation of Conradi, as it is usually called, ischiefly adapted to the soft or fluid cataract, and m
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The institutes and practice of surgery: being the outlines of a course of lectures . be detached duringthe operation of couching into the anterior chamber. Glcizealso, as well as Scarpa, Hey, and others, followed the samepractice. But it is chiefly owing to Saunders, Conradi, and Adams, that this mode of removing the cataract hasbeen brought to its present degree of perfection. There are two operations in use, each founded upon theabsorbent principle—the anterior and posterior. Thefirst, or the operation of Conradi, as it is usually called, ischiefly adapted to the soft or fluid cataract, and may be per-formed in the following way. The pupil being dilated bythe application of the extract of belladonna or stramoniumto the eyebrow an hour or two before the operation, thepatient is seated, and the eye secured as in the operation ofcouching or extraction. With a straight spear-pointedneedle, an inch in length, rounded in the shank, and taper-ing from the shoulder towards the point, - (Plate VII. fig.1) the surgeon penetrates the cornea, at its lower and outer Plate 1 V.%. WmmEBSaSKSxSScffSVy