Cataract surgery was practiced by many ancient cultures.
One surgical practice was called #couching, as depicted in these images.
This surgery physically displaces the lens by pushing it out of the line of vision.
Another surgical practice is called #needling,
which breaks the lens into smaller pieces.
Neither of these surgeries left patients with perfect vision,
but they avoided total blindness.
Both needling and couching were still being performed during the Renaissance era.
In 1583, #Georg #Bartisch (1535-1606) wrote about couching and illustrated the procedure.
Georg Bartisch was a surgeon who limited his practice to ophthalmology and hernia repair.
His book, Ophthalmodouleia: das ist Augendienst (Ophthalmology: That Is the Service of the Eyes), was the first ophthalmic text written in vernacular German.
It was also the first extensively illustrated book for any surgical specialty.
It is an astonishing record of the practice of ophthalmology during the Renaissance period.
Bartisch had much to say about how to fashion a cataract needle and perform couching.
He also took pains to describe where to perform the surgery.
He warned patients away from itinerate surgeons at the marketplace.
Instead, he suggested surgery should take place inside a "light chamber in which the patient shall have his bed and covers; so that he need not go far.
The nearer the bed, the better it is."
Sound advice in an age before anesthesia.
They are totally #couching this election.
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Hmm, they didn't add couches to the background? That's odd. I thought this was a sponsorship by that Aaron's Rentals offshoot to make #couching ๐ค๐งค's a mainstream appeal to truckers via wiping away the college' debt via QuidProQuo ' to that Sofa Queen / NFT / crypto shoppe?
Odd choice of backdrops. Are the -r #FeeSpeech crowd totally #couching this presser up with only one camera or did they run out of crisis actors to pay out of their Dolphin Visiting Funds via a depleted Super pac dark money QuidProCouch payback scheme?
No Pipe and Drape sponsorship? Where's the banner ad sponsors? Isn't this a sad sad sad NASCAR NFT scheme for gauze screwing over the MyTemuPillow outlet popupstore .ru or something?
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Couching is verb, da? #couching is a VERB ! ๐ Citation, da! https://infosec.exchange/@[email protected]/112876059731113672
Wait, but didn't Jesse ' needs a psychiatrist ๐๏ธ ' W. go on to tell Jeanine this about her voting for a Republican Woman.... ????
Such a #WeirdReich! โ ๏ธ๐ด๐๐ป๐๏ธ๐ฌ
The #Couching / #Couched crowd is a #DSM5 case studies'!!!!!
Why even the Millennial VP FlipFlopper pick was an embarrassing story like it was a planned thing or something?! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Such miXed mess(age)ing you need a psyche ๐๐๏ธ!!!! #KitchenTableIssues
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Attached: 1 video @[email protected] Ah. Must be a sever issue with that clip. Here is the clip. I re-recorded it from the link. This should work.
The #couching continues up the paved road to the ๐๐๏ธ*
* But wait.... Till the Master Sgt. Drops an interview! ๐
Is the US๐คworld watching this strange๐คcreepy๐คweirdreich๐คRealityTv๐ค๐ฉ๐คDARVOing๐ผ๐ค Plummeted in rating show called #Couching on ViaCom? Is everyone even watching the same channel? Wait, wot?
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Content warning: CW: #TurnCoat2025 Platform Fail #uspol
Hmm, maybe #NatSecRickThePillow wasn't such a bad typo.
Totally wasn't as bad as the #GrandpaNatSecRickVonShizenPanzer though.. nope. #couching ๐ 'Z, no doubt.