Download or read book The History of Modern Cataract Surgery written by Marvin L. Kwitko and published by Kugler Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.