To the Editor:
—The paper Dr. Würdemann read at Atlantic City on "Expression of Cataract in Its Capsule" [The Journal, September 4] is misleading to the casual reader.He quotes as follows from a paper written by Elschnig in 1908: "The lens is expelled after incision of about one-third of the circumference made with a conjunctival flap and an upward iridectomy, either by means of gentle pressure or with the flat spoon acting purely as a gliding surface." Würdemann states that "the above description of Pagenstecher's operation on cataract in the unopened capsule is as short and accurate as has yet been given. Examine these words closely, the various essays of Pagenstecher, digest them, then follow up by reading the essays of subsequent writers, as Cassiani, Gradenigo, Gayet, Landesberg, and other foreign writers, Roosa, Andrew, Henry Smith, Oxley, Maynard, Herbert, Cheney and Greene, then come back to the original of