Cataract surgery is one of the oldest surgical procedures known, first documented in the fifth century BC. [12] In ancient times, cataracts were treated with a technique called couching ...

"Interestingly the Roman author Celsus described cataract extraction surgery using a specially pointed needle ... Dr Alex Ionides, eye surgeon at Moorfield eye hospital said an ancient method for ...

It's part of the surgery to fix cataracts. Each eye has a lens -- a window made of clear protein and water that sits behind the pupil. The lens focuses light onto the retina, which sends it to ...