Table 8.

Cataract surgeons and oculists in the South.

Year	Surgeon: regions
1768	Dr De Lacoudre: Norfolk. He was trained in France by Drs Guerin and Morant. He has a certificate from King George III. If you cannot travel to see him, you can send your urine, and he will analyze it, and return relevant medical information175–176
1779	John Allard: Charleston. “Expert in Surgery Dentist, Oculist . . .”87,177
1785	William Baynham (1749-1814): Essex, Virginia
1786	John Tyler (1763-1841): Frederick, Maryland
1793	Gabriel N Phillips: Edenton, North Carolina. Trained in New York178
1797	Nathan Brownson died in Riceboro, Georgia. His estate had couching instruments179
1798	Joseph Brevitt (1769-1839): Extraction. Baltimore
1799	“R. C. Murray (Occulist). . . performs the different operations on the eye, has been successful in restoring a number of persons to sight that had been blind many years’’180: Baltimore. Died 1801