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Rejecting Sir Harold Ridley (Inventor of Modern Cataract Surgery)

Rejecting Sir Harold Ridley (Inventor of Modern Cataract Surgery)

Update: 2024-08-221
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Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness worldwide – 50% of the world’s blindness is a result of cataracts. For 200 years, treatment of the condition involved removing the lens of the eye and substituting the function of that lens with a pair of thick glasses. But in 1949, Dr. Harold Ridley had another idea. What if he replaced the natural lens of the eye with an artificial one? Well, let’s just say the field of ophthalmology didn’t see the vision.


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Rejecting Sir Harold Ridley (Inventor of Modern Cataract Surgery)

Rejecting Sir Harold Ridley (Inventor of Modern Cataract Surgery)