RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cataract surgery performed before 800 B.C.
JF British Journal of Ophthalmology
JO Br J Ophthalmol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
SP 171
OP 171
DO 10.1136/bjo.59.3.171
VO 59
IS 3
A1 P. N. Roy
A1 K. S. Mehra
A1 P. J. Deshpande
YR 1975
UL http://bjo.bmj.com/content/59/3/171.abstract
AB The general belief that the technique of cataract extraction in India in the Sushruta period (800 B.C.) was couching is no longer tenable. A study of the original text suggests that the method was more closely allied to the extracapsular extraction of recent times.