DAVIEL, Jacques (1693 – 1762)
1693 – 1762
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1748 CE
#13777
Lettre de M. Daviel, conseiller, chirurgien ordinaire du roi en survivance & par quartier, à M. de Joyeuse, docteur en médecine de l’Université de Montpellier ....
The first account of cataract extraction. Daviel also published this in the Mercure de France in September 1748, pp. 198-218. The separate edition, a 24-page pamphlet, was printed from a different setting of type.
1753 CE
#5829
Sur une nouvelle méthode de guérir la cataracte par l’extraction du cristalin.
Daviel originated the modern method of treating cataract by extraction of the lens. By the time he made this official scientific report to the Academy of Surgery, Daviel had already tested his method on 206 cases, wit…