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Peter the great and cataract surgery
Andrzej Grzybowski1,2, Igor Zimin3, Christopher T Leffler4
1Department of Ophthalmology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland.
Abstract:
Tsar Peter Alekseyevich Romanov (1672-1725), often called Peter the Great, modernized Russia in many areas, including in the field of medicine. Peter I attended medical lectures and demonstrations and may have even performed some medical procedures himself. In Paris, he witnessed a cataract couching performed by Englishman John Thomas Woolhouse (1664-1733/4) and requested that Woolhouse train a Russian student in ophthalmology.
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