| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Aug. 9, 2012). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Surely the threat of blindness from whatever cause, is an event faced by an ever-growing segment of our aging population. However, when the cause was cataract formation, over the centuries a definite treatment evolved and became available to help those afflicted with this problem, from couching, through crude extra-capsular Graeffe knife extraction, intra-capsular cataract surgery, and planned extra-capsular surgery, to phacoemulsification (ultrasound or laser). Doctors, therefore, recognized very early that there was one blinding condition which could be treated and in which vision could be i. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cataract -- Surgery -- History.
|
|
Cataract -- Surgery. |
|
History. |
|
Cataract Extraction -- history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Added Author |
Kwitko, Marvin L.
|
|
Kelman, Charles D.
|
| ISBN |
9789062998319 (electronic book) |
|
9062998313 (electronic book) |
|
9789062991549 |
|
9062991548 |
|
