Cataract 1952.

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1952
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Cataract 1952. Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Two patients undergo firstly an extra and then an intra-capsular extraction with the use of acrylic lens implant on a patient. An elderly patient is prepared for the operation for an extra-capsular extraction; their eyelids are anaesthetised via injection. This is followed by the intra-capsular extraction on an elderly male patient.

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1952.

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1 encoded moving image (15:57 mins.) : silent, colour

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00:15:57

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Institute of Ophthalmology

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Institute of Ophthalmology, Medical Illustration Department. A. S. Philps.

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In English.

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