DACRYOCYSTORHINOSTOMY

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Abstract
Two great achievements in the field of ophthalmologic surgery, namely, transplantation of the cornea and plastic dacryocystorhinostomy, were accomplished in the course of the last two decades. Keratoplasty rapidly entered the ophthalmologic practice owing to the extraordinary novelty of the operation, the favorable propaganda of the nonmedical press, the commentaries of the laymen and the eagerness of the blind all over the world who, in their ignorance, asked oculists to perform the operation on them. This was not the case with dacryocystorhinostomy, which has not as yet been accepted by the majority of surgeons of the Western Hemisphere, in spite of the fact that it was devised and technically complete many years before keratoplasty, a fact which tends to bring discredit on ophthalmology. In the interest of ophthalmologists' professional prestige and their duty of selecting for patients the proper treatment for a given condition and because of all physicians' feeling

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