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Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:944.

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The history of the intracapsular cataract extraction goes back many years. At the Amsterdam Congress in 1929, Marquez spoke of a book published in 1789 in which the intracapsular extraction with forceps was described. About 1850, McNamara, of Calcutta, practiced a method of intracapsular extraction by combined external pressure applied just back of the incision with the curet and at the opposite limbus with the tip of the finger; and Wright, of Columbus, Ohio, described a similar method at about the same time.

The two Pagenstechers stated their belief that the remaining capsule and remnants of the lens in the usual cataract extraction were the principal causes of iritis and practiced a method of removing the lens in its capsule by introducing a spoon back of the lens and extracting the lens, with the loss of a few drops of vitreous. De Wecker operated in 66 cases and then abandoned . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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