TY  - JOUR
T1  - Vitreous, zonule and ciliary processes from a surgical point of view: Especially with regard to operations for cataract and detachment of the retina
AU  - JOHNSON G
Y1  - 1941/01/01
N1  - 10.1001/archopht.1941.00870070039004
JO  - Archives of Ophthalmology
SP  - 25
EP  - 31
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
N2  - A great many surgeons look on the vitreous as merely an inert mass of jelly having the structure and consistency of fresh white of egg. Moreover, they imagine that if one plunges a knife into the vitreous and then withdraws it, or if the hyaloid membrane ruptures, and a few drops of vitreous happens to escape, and the wound is then closed, no harm has been done. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In the first place it is more important to bear in mind that neither the eye nor the vitreous is a dead structure which can be operated on as one would do at autopsy, but that the eye as a whole, as well as all of its structures, is a living organ of dynamic soul-energy, having both physical and mental properties which react to every action on the part of the surgeon and influence the energy
SN  - 0093-0326
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archopht.1941.00870070039004
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1941.00870070039004
ER  -