Cataract extraction

The volume embodies an experience of about five thousand
extractions. This is a comparatively small experience for
an ophthalmic surgeon of standing in India. But on this
account the material has been, perhaps, more completely
handled and investigated than if the numbers had been
larger. In busy seasons Indian surgeons have barely time
to perform their operations, and can see little or nothing
of the cases afterwards. For years I have jotted down facts
and ideas regularly as they came, and have developed them
for teaching purposes, both in hospital and in the lecture
theatre. The present work has, in a sense, grown out of
an earlier publication ' The Practical Details of Cataract
Extraction ' of which two editions were published in
1903.