Alvin A. Hubbell

1846 – 1911

• Jacques Daviel and the beginnings of the modern operation of extraction of cataract
• Samuel Sharp, the first surgeon to make the corneal incision in cataract extraction with a single knife
• The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870
• A cataract knife of excellent shape and proportion devised a century and a half ago, by Dr. Thomas Young, of Edinburgh, and the knives which preceded it
• Extraction of steel from the interior of the eye with the electro-magnet