Abstract
The word cataract derived from the Latin cataracta, waterfall. The white froth of a waterfall represented the clouding of the lens that occurs with an advanced cortical cataract. The Romans saw suffusion between the pupil and the lens. We now think of cataract as the consequence of natural aging changes [1].
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Packer, M., Lindstrom, R.L., Davis, E.A. (2013). Evolution of Cataract Surgery. In: Krueger, R., Talamo, J., Lindstrom, R. (eds) Textbook of Refractive Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery (ReLACS). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1010-2_1
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