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This article describes an instrument that I made and have used for some years in the extraction of the cataract in its capsule. I submit it to my confrères and to the surgical instrument artisan in the hope that some one may accept the lead I offer and mechanically perfect it, so that it may be put at the disposal of many ophthalmic surgeons.
My primary object is to contrive a compact and effective device for the grasping of the lens in the capsule, so as to do away with the objectionable rubber tubing and the large vacuum container of the Barraquer, Down or Van Hulen equipment, and to bring forward a mechanism to accomplish this aim and yet to grasp and perform in a satisfactory manner so as to remove the lens in its capsule.
The instrument embodies a cylinder in which a plunger operates to produce a