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Eye surgeries that involve incisions in the cornea began as early as the latter part of the 1890s but it was largely experimental during those times. The success of eye surgeries took place after fifty more years after the time it started. During World War II, the Japanese began conducting experimental surgeries in correcting myopia among Asians. Back then, the procedure entailed a series of corneal incisions for flattening to be done. As the eye undergoes the healing process, the cornea becomes depressed thus, the refractive errors in patients are being corrected. Due to the many complications that arise and the general predictability, physicians abandoned this early technique.