title: Cataract surgery performed before 800 B.C.
abstract: The general belief that the technique of cataract extraction in India in the Sushruta period (800 B.C.) was couching is no longer tenable. A study of the original text suggests that the method was more closely allied to the extracapsular extraction of recent times.
mesh_terms: D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care