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.
Anesthesia for Cataract Removal Surgery (1700âs-1990âs) There are isolated reports of surgeons removing the lens rather than just knocking it out of the way in ancient history, but this approach was not widely adopted until the mid 1700âs. Two competing procedures emerged, intracapsular and extra capsular cataract removal surgery.