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Cataract -- Surgery

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Aaron S. Green, Louis D. Green, and Floyd H. Cook case reports on eye diseases

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 485
Scope and Contents The collection consists of 55 case reports from three early 20th century ophthalmologists. The first 25 case reports are from Floyd H. Cook in Middletown, NY from 1911-1919. The other 30 case reports are from Aaron Samuel Green and Louis David Green in San Francisco, CA from 1916-1919. The case reports include treatments for many kinds of eye diseases including but not limited to glaucoma, iritis, strabismus, detachment of retina, traumatic cataracts, and interstitial keratitis. The...
Dates: 1911-1919

Notes on the lectures of Philip Syng Physick

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/206
Scope and Contents

Volume contains notes taken by an unnamed student on lectures of Philip Syng Physick on surgery, probably in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, circa 1805. The lectures are numbered 1-14 in part 1 and 15-26 in part 2. Major subjects are: inflammation; ulcers; the treatment of fractures, wounds, and head injuries; diseases of the eye and cataract surgery; and amputation. Index to subjects included in part 2.

Dates: circa 1805