An Analytical Investigation of Causes and Methods of Eye Neoplasm Ttreatment in Islamic Civilization
Journal Title: Journal of Research on History of Medicine - Year 2019, Vol 8, Issue 3
Abstract
The eye and its treatments and surgeries used to be taken as a profession in ophthalmology during old Islamic civilization, just as surgery which used to be a completely independent branch of medicine. A glance on numerous works done and written on the eye and its treatments during Islamic era illustrates the fact that Islamic physicians knew most of eye diseases, and posed some theories about the eye and its diseases in theirs books. The present study tries to scrutinize on Muslim physicians’ ideas about Eye Neoplasm, its causes and treatment and to compare them with modern medicine. This is a descriptive-analytic library research aiming at highlighting Muslim physicians’ perceptions of Eye Neoplasm and their suggested treatments. The results showed theories of Eye Neoplasm posed by Muslims and also their suggested treatments were of totally scientific bases and in accordance with modern medicine sources and methods.
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Zahra Hossein Hashemi, Masood Kasiri, Asghar Montazerolghaem
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