The Indian operation of couching for cataract

Name: The Indian operation of couching for cataract
Author: Elliot, Robert Henry

Elliot, Robert Henry

Cataract -- Surgery -- India; Ophthalmology -- India -- History

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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.

[Illustration: PLATE I.

_Copied by C. A. R. H._

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

_Copied by C. A. R. H._

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

                            [Illustration]

                            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.,

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The Indian operation of couching for cataract

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