QUEEN VICTORIA, HER PHYSICIANS, AND HER CATARACTS

Decreasing vision due to cataracts became a significant problem for Qu een Victoria toward the end of the 19th century. Her personal physicia n, Sir James Reid, obtained consultations with two eminent British oph thalmologists, George Lawson and Edward Nettleship. The Queen was not satisfied, and requested an opinion from the German professor Hermann Pagenstecher. All the doctors agreed on the diagnosis, but the Queen n ever underwent surgery.