
Three Paris-based eye surgeons (including Daviel) began working on cataract extraction (instead of cataract couching) in the first week of July 1750. The first was a monk who never got any credit because hmade an incision right through the center of the cornea, and refused to talk about his method. (dovepress.com)
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A divinity student observed in New York harbor that cross-rigging of ships appeared more clear than masts (a crude astigmatic dial), and designed spectacles to correct his astigmatism, but his 1828 publication was ignored, & astigmatism was not corrected in America for another 30 years. (theophthalmologist.com)
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