Chapter I: Front Matter

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_By the Same Author_

=SCLERO-CORNEAL TREPHINING IN
THE OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF
GLAUCOMA=, 1913. Second Edition,
1914. George Pulman and Sons, London.

=GLAUCOMA: DIGEST OF THE YEAR’S
LITERATURE.= The Ophthalmic Yearbook,
1913–1916. Herrick Book and Stationery
Company, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

=GLAUCOMA: A HANDBOOK FOR THE
GENERAL PRACTITIONER=, 1917.
H. K. Lewis and Co. Ltd., London.

=GLAUCOMA: A TEXTBOOK FOR THE
STUDENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY.=
(_Now in the press._)
H. K. Lewis and Co. Ltd., London.

_Copied by C. A. R. H._

FIG. 1.--The positions of the patient, operator, and assistant, as depicted by Bartisch (Albertotti).

_Copied by C. A. R. H._

FIG. 2.--To illustrate the method of introducing the needle in Bartisch’s operation (Albertotti). The cataract is _in situ_ in the right eye, and couched in the left eye.]

THE INDIAN OPERATION OF

COUCHING

FOR CATARACT

INCORPORATING

THE HUNTERIAN LECTURES
DELIVERED BEFORE THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND ON
FEBRUARY 19 AND 21, 1917

BY

ROBERT HENRY ELLIOT
M.D., B.S. Lond., Sc.D. Edin., F.R.C.S. Eng., etc.
Lieut.-Colonel I.M.S. (retired)

LATE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE GOVERNMENT OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, MADRAS;

LATE PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, MEDICAL COLLEGE, MADRAS; AND
LATE FELLOW OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS;

HONORARY FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND
OTOLARYNGOLOGY.

WITH 45 ILLUSTRATIONS

PAUL B. HOEBER
67 & 69 EAST 59TH STREET
NEW YORK
1918

_Printed in England_

To
E. C. I. E.

To

E. TREACHER COLLINS, ESQ., F.R.C.S. ENG.,

IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE ASSISTANCE
WHICH HIS WORK ON THE PATHOLOGY OF THE EYE
HAS BEEN TO ALL WHO DESIRE TO ADVANCE THE
SCIENCE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY