Jacques Daviel performed the first documented planned primary cataract extraction on Sep. 18, 1750
Eye (Lond)
.
2024 May;38(7):1392-1393.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-023-02874-5.
Epub 2023 Dec 6.
Authors
Christopher T Leffler
1
2
,
B Frits Hogewind
3
,
Stephen G Schwartz
4
,
Andrzej Grzybowski
5
6
Affiliations
1
Department of Ophthalmology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA. chrislefflermd@gmail.com.
2
Department of Ophthalmology, Richmond VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA. chrislefflermd@gmail.com.
3
Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Center Haaglanden, The Hague, the Netherlands.
4
Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Naples, FL, USA.
5
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland.
6
Institute for Research in Ophthalmology, Poznan, Poland.
PMID:
38057561
PMCID:
PMC11076578
(available on
2025-05-01
)
DOI:
10.1038/s41433-023-02874-5
No abstract available
Publication types
Historical Article
Letter
Biography
MeSH terms
Cataract / history
Cataract Extraction* / history
Famous Persons
History, 18th Century
Humans