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Quote by Charles Kelman
They just were not willing to believe that cataracts could be removed without cutting the eye halfway open.
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The speaker says that people could not accept the possibility of removing cataracts through a much smaller opening. “Cutting the eye halfway open” presents the older idea as extreme, while the sentence contrasts it with a less invasive method they were unwilling to believe could work.
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