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Did you know that the first surgical treatment for cataract surgery was documented in India 800 B.C.?!
It was called couching. The physician used a sharp needle and stuck it into the eye ~4 mm posterior to the limbus. Blindly, the physician impaled the lens and pushed it down to tear the lens from its lens zonules. 😱
Image borrowed from http://www.mrcophth.com/Historyofophthalmology/cataracthistory.htm
It was called couching. The physician used a sharp needle and stuck it into the eye ~4 mm posterior to the limbus. Blindly, the physician impaled the lens and pushed it down to tear the lens from its lens zonules. 😱
Image borrowed from http://www.mrcophth.com/Historyofophthalmology/cataracthistory.htm