Jacques Daviel
Jacques Daviel (11 August 1696 – 30 September 1762[1]) was a French ophthalmologist credited with originating the first significant advance in cataract surgery since couching was invented in ancient India.[2] Daviel performed the first extracapsular cataract extraction on 8 April 1747.[2]
Daviel earned his medical degree from the , practiced in Marseille where he was affiliated with the medical school there, then restricted his practice to ophthalmology in 1728.[3] He was on the staff of and became oculist to Louis XV.[3]
In March 1756 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[4] In 1759, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Daviel died of apoplexy in 1762 while on a trip to Geneva, Switzerland.[3]
References[]
- ^ Dolezalova V (Jan 2005). "Jacques Daviel, 11 August 1696--30 September 1762". Cesk Slov Oftalmol. 61 (1): 73–5. PMID 15782862. NOTE: Many other references give year of birth as 1693.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Obuchowska I, Mariak Z (2005). "[Jacques Daviel--the inventor of the extracapsular cataract extraction surgery.]". Klin Oczna. 107 (7–9): 567–71. PMID 16417025.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Mathew J, Mathen MM. "Clinical Practice Module: Quality Assurance in Cataract Surgery." Archived 2006-02-04 at the Wayback Machine Accessed September 23, 2006.
- ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
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