2001, Number 3
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Cir Cir 2001; 69 (3)
Cataract surgery to 1748
Lozano-Alcázar J
Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 141-143
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ABSTRACT
We briefly present here a history of cataract surgery since it began in India approximately 1,000 years before Christ, and the development of anatomical knowledge, concerning the first cataract extraction performed by Jacques Daviel in 1748, who initiated the modern era of cataract surgery.
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