RT Journal
T1 MAdrid
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD April 13
VO 92
IS 15
SP 1285
OP 1286
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700410055023
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700410055023
AB Operation for Cataract in India 
    Dr. F. Payales, head of the department of ophthalmology at the San José and Santa Adela Hospital, Madrid, recently gave a lecture on his trip to India. While there Dr. Holland, head of the Scientific English Mission in Baluchistan, invited him to perform the extraction of cataract by Barraquer's method at his hospital in Shikarpur. Sixteen years ago, Dr. Holland, backed by the Indian philanthropist Seth Hiranad, constructed a building with two waiting rooms and two operating rooms, in which he has performed more than 16,000 operations for cataract on the natives. More than fifty operations are performed every day. Some of the patients come from a distance. When they arrive, the police have to intervene in the arguments as to their turns for consultations on the next day. Dr. Holland is hailed in an enthusiastic and unusual form: The patients kneel and kiss his