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BERNARD SAMUELS, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1942;27(2):345-352.

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Before the invention of the ophthalmoscope, the teaching of ophthalmology was of three main types, namely, the teaching of ophthalmia, the teaching of cataract and the teaching of blindness. Of these three, the teaching of cataract was the best developed, owing largely to its frequency and to the good results obtained by removing cataracts. At first the most obvious facts concerning cataracts were observed. Details were learned subsequently. In recent years the employment of the slit lamp has aided enormously in revealing lesions in the living lens and in observing their progress or arrest. In the field of experiment, epithelial cells from the lens have been cultivated and studied in various relations. The surgery of the lens has not lagged behind. With a refinement of technic gradually evolved, the method of intracapsular extraction has become a standard one.

An understanding of the pathology of the lens is essential in order . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read at the Seventy-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society, Hot Springs, Va., June 5, 1941.

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