Table 5.
Cataract surgery and oculists in Philadelphia.
| Year | Surgeon: Comment |
|---|---|
| 1763–1792 | Couching instruments: “Smith and Harris . . . Surgeons Instruments . . . Eye probes” 1763,134 Nathaniel Tweedy, 1764, 1766, 1768.135–137 John Sparhawk, 1772–1773, 1781.138–140 Pennsylvania Packet printer. “couching instruments,” 1780.141 “William Smith . . . instruments . . . couching,” 1782–1783.142–143 Oliver C. Hull, 1792.144 Goldthwait and Baldwin, 1792145 |
| 1768 | John Flemor: “. . . knowledge . . . acquired in some of the most eminent hospitals in Europe . . . cures most disorders in the eyes, particularly the cataract, by a new operation of couching”146 |
| Charles Henry Forget: “Doctor Forget . . . Skill as an Oculist”147–148 | |
| 1774 | “Doctor Adams, Oculist . . . pearls, films, rheums, or dull sight, without operation”149 |
| 1779–1808 | William Shippen, Jr. acquired couching instruments, 1779150 |
| 1784–1796 | John Foulke, MD (1757–1796): Had cataract instruments in his estate151 |
| 1785–1794 | Joseph Goss: Advertised cataract surgery in 1785152 |
| 1789–1818 | Caspar Wistar couched Humphrey Marshall in 1793 |
| 1793–1794 | “Andrew Girinzer, German Physician and Surgeon . . . diseases incidental to the eyes . . . practiced . . . in Paris”153 Served Emperor Joseph in the “war against the Turks”153 |
| 1795–1837 | Philip Syng Physick: Extraction |