TY - JOUR T1 - Cataract surgery performed before 800 B.C. JF - British Journal of Ophthalmology JO - Br J Ophthalmol SP - 171 LP - 171 DO - 10.1136/bjo.59.3.171 VL - 59 IS - 3 AU - P. N. Roy AU - K. S. Mehra AU - P. J. Deshpande Y1 - 1975/03/01 UR - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/59/3/171.abstract N2 - 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. ER -