Abstract
The credit for the idea of replacing the opaque crystallin of the human eye with an implant apparently must go to an itinerant Italian healer called Tadiny, whose idea of lens implantation was mentioned by Casanova in his memoires (Taieb, 1955). In Warsaw in 1766, Tadiny showed Casanova tiny crystal lenses that he said he could insert under the cornea to replace the eye’s natural lens. Two years later in Barcelona after a second meeting, Casanova concluded that Tadiny had yet actually to implant a lens. According to R. Marx (1970), Tadiny must have been a rather well-known healer also in our country, since he had placed advertisements in the Gazette van Gent in 1788, 1791, and 1792.
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© 1982 Belgian Society of Ophthalmology, Leuven, Belgium and Dr W. Junk Publishers, The Hague, The Netherlands
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Leonard, P., Rommel, J. (1982). History. In: Lens Implantation. Monographs in Ophthalmology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8018-1_1
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