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Number of identified cataract surgeons, total (couching plus extraction, top line), and those who preferred extraction (bottom line), by year. Each shopkeeper who advertised couching instruments in a given year was counted as one surgeon, with the assumption that the shopkeeper likely sold at least one set of instruments to a surgeon who did not advertise.
