The history of the intracapsular cataract extraction goes back many years. At the Amsterdam Congress in 1929, Marquez spoke of a book published in 1789 in which the intracapsular extraction with forceps was described. About 1850, McNamara, of Calcutta, practiced a method of intracapsular extraction by combined external pressure applied just back of the incision with the curet and at the opposite limbus with the tip of the finger; and Wright, of Columbus, Ohio, described a similar method at about the same time.