FOOTNOTES:
[1] Read in the Section on Ophthalmology of the American Medical Association, at the Fifty-ninth Annual Session, held at Chicago, June, 1908.
[2] Wagner, Karl Wilhelm Ulrich: Inaugural Thesis, Göttingen, 1818. He invented the designation iridotomia, which he formed from the original Greek, ἶρις, ἶριδος (the iris) and τομή (cut).
[3] Cheselden, William: Philosophical Transactions, London, 1728, xxxv, p. 451.
[4] Ibid, abridged, vii, pl. v, Figures 2, 3 and 5.
[5] Sharpe, Samuel: A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery, London, 1739, p. 169.
[6] Adams, Sir William: Practical Observations on Ectropium, Artificial Pupil and Cataract, London, 1812, p. 37 et seq.
[7] Guthrie, G. J.: Operative Surgery of the Eye, London, 1830, p. 428.
[8] Histoire et Mémoires de l’Académie Royale de Chirurgie, Paris, 1757, iii, p. 115.
[9] Huguier, Pierre Charles: Des Opérations de Pupille Artificielle, Paris, 1841.
[10] Heuermann, Georg: Abhandlung der Vornemsten Chirurgischen Operationen, Copenhagen and Leipzig, 1756, ii, p. 493.
[11] Janin, Jean: Mémoires et Observations sur L’Oeil, Lyon 1772, p. 191.
[12] Guérin, M.: Maladies des Yeux, Lyon 1769, p. 235.
[13] Beer, Georg Joseph: Lehre der Augenkrankheiten, Wien, 1792, ii, p. 12.
[14] Beer, Georg Joseph: Ansicht der Künstlichen Pupillen-Bildung, Wien, 1805, p. 105.
[15] Adams, Sir William: A Treatise on Artificial Pupil, London, 1819, p. 34, et seq.
[16] Scarpa, Antonio: Trattato Delle Principali Malattie Degli Occhi, Ed. quinta, l’avia, 1816, translated by James Briggs, London, 1818, p. 373.
[17] Edin. Med. and Surg. Jour., No. 58.
[18] Walton, H. Haynes: The Surgical Diseases of the Eye, London, 1861, p. 604.
[19] Meyer, Edouard: Traité Pratique des Maladies des Yeux, Paris, 1880, translated by Freeland Fergus, Philadelphia, 1887, p. 396.
[20] Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, 1869, p. 431.
[21] Galezowski, Xavier: Maladies des Yeux, 2d. ed., Paris, 1875, p. 401, and 3rd. ed., Paris, 1888, p. 384.
[22] A brief description of the author’s method, written by him, was first published in de Schweinitz on Diseases of the Eye, Philadelphia, 2nd. ed., 1896, p. 607.
[23] Wenzel, Baron de: Traité de la Cataracte, Paris, 1786, translated by James Ware, London, 1805, ii, p. 256.
[24] Maunoir, Jean Pierre: Mémoires sur l’Organisation de l’Iris, et l’Opération de la Pupille Artificielle, Paris, 1812.
[25] Medico-Chir. Trans., London, 1816, vii, p. 301, and ix, p. 382.
[26] Mackenzie, William: Diseases of the Eye, 3rd. ed., London, 1840, p. 746, American edition, edited by Hewson, Philadelphia, 1855, p. 815.
[27] Lawrence, Sir William: Diseases of the Eye, American edition, edited by Hays, Philadelphia, 1854, p. 478.
[28] Transactions, Fourth Int. Ophth. Cong., London, 1872, p. 179.
[29] De Wecker, Louis: Annales d’Oculistique, Sept., 1873, p. 123, et seq.
[30] DeWecker et Landolt: Traité Complet d’Ophtalmologie, Paris, 1886, ii, p. 393.
[31] Amer. Jour. of the Med. Sciences, July, 1855, p. 82.
[32] This knife-needle has been carefully made for me by Luer, Paris, and by Ferguson, Philadelphia.
[33] Compare with millimeter scale beneath each diagram.