The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . SOFT LENTICULAR OiPSOXAR CATARACT PARTICULAR JPERATIONS. 427 »nd bulls of the eye, as extract of belladonna, stramonium, etc. Thishead of the patient is steadied by an assistant, who also holds the eyefast with the speculum; the upper lid may also be held by the fingersof the assistant, and the under lid by the operator, who is obliged toprevent the eye from rolling with one hand, while the other handles thoinstruments. The usual position of the patient is a low chair, in a room, and that of
The hydropathic encyclopedia: a system of hydropathy and hygiene .. . SOFT LENTICULAR OiPSOXAR CATARACT PARTICULAR JPERATIONS. 427 »nd bulls of the eye, as extract of belladonna, stramonium, etc. Thishead of the patient is steadied by an assistant, who also holds the eyefast with the speculum; the upper lid may also be held by the fingersof the assistant, and the under lid by the operator, who is obliged toprevent the eye from rolling with one hand, while the other handles thoinstruments. The usual position of the patient is a low chair, in a room, and that of tle surgeon, seated on a high chair in front,with a foot-stool to steady his elbow on his knee. The couching nee-dle is introduced through the siderotic, about two lines from the cornea,uad a little below the horizontal axis of the eye, and its point carriedslightly backward to avoid the iris; when the point of the needle isseen in front of the lens—by looking through the pupil—the capsule isto be detached from the lens with the sharp edges of the needle, andthen pushed down out of sight. But if
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