Not quite so much illumination will get into the lens, but the picture will be the same.
Therefore you will see, and see finely.
"Now, you must not be uneasy, and you must not think of this merely as an interesting experiment just because you have not heard of it before.
My old preceptor, Fuller of Johns Hopkins, did this operation often, and almost always with success.

He could do it better than I, but I am the best that offers, and it must be done now.
"There is a very general human shrinking from the thought of any operation on the eye--it is so delicate, so sensitive in every way, but as a matter of fact, science can do many things by way of operation upon the eye.

If I did not think I could give you back your sight, you may be sure I should never undertake this work to-day.

The operation is known technically as iridectomy.

That would mean nothing to you if I had not tried to explain it.
"Of course there will be wounds in the tissues of the iris which must be healed.