IMMATURE CATARACT AND ITS TREATMENT.

Abstract

It may be asked: Why waste time on this hackneyed subject, which has so often been discussed, especially in our own country, for example, by Risley, 1 Woodward, 2 Alt, 3 W. L. Pyle, 4 and by others, and when we know that there is no specific treatment of incipient cataract and that all which can be done is to keep the patient in the best state of health and the affected eyes in the most perfect optical and nutritional conditions until that time arrives when the crystalline lenses may be safely extracted? While this is undoubtedly true, may it not be pertinently inquired whether a too strict adherence to this view of the case does not engender a species of unjustifiable pessimism and unwarranted therapeutic nihilism which drive patients out of legitimate consulting-rooms into the hands of irregular practitioners? In general terms, all complicated cataracts, especially those caused by