Mission Hill, South Dakota - Demographics. 1  As of the census [3] of 2010, there were 177 people, 69 households, and 51 families residing in the town.
A: Tremendously. In the early days of cataract surgery, the only thing that surgeons could do was remove the cloudy lens. Without a lens inside their eye, patients had to wear very thick âCoke bottleâ glasses to see.The most important change has been the development and improvement of artificial replacement lenses.: Tremendously. In the early days of cataract surgery, the only thing that surgeons could do was remove the cloudy lens. Without a lens inside their eye, patients had to wear very thick âCoke bottleâ glasses to see.
The first reported surgical removal of a cataract from the eye occurred in Paris in 1748. The advent of topical anesthesia made this procedure more practical. The early techniques involved removing the entire opaque lens in one piece using an incision that went halfway around the circumference of the cornea.