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From Couching to a Plastic Lens: How Cataract Surgery Changed

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Wikipedia: Cataract Surgery
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Couching was the main procedure for cataracts from antiquity until Sep. 18, 1750 when French surgeon Jacques Daviel, credited as the father of modern cataract extraction surgery, performed a planned extracapsular cataract extraction while in Cologne.
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