Cataract surgery performed before 800 B.C.

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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.

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Roy, P. N., Mehra, K. S., & Deshpande, P. J. (1975). Cataract surgery performed before 800 B.C. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 59(3), 171. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.59.3.171

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