Avicenna’s Description of Corneal Edema: The Early Report in the History

Journal of Research on History of Medicine

卷:7

Arman Zargaran¹  Melina Esmian² 

[1] Department of History of Medicine, School of Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;

[2] Student Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: Persian medicine;    Ophthalmology;    Corneal edema;    Medieval history;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Corneal edema is an ophthalmic disorder which has two causes; one ofthem is increasing intraocular pressure that is the result of glaucoma andanother reason is decompensation of endothelium that includes inflammatoryand non-inflammatory types. Although, it is believed that thisdisorder is a new concept in medicine, reviewing the Avicenna’ Canonof Medicine (written in 1025AD) show that Avicenna described this disorderunder the title of Saratan-e Cheshm. He has defined it and alsodescribed its sign and symptoms like exquisite pain, elongation of eyevessels, needle irritation, and redness of the eye, headache, anorexia, andhurt from looking at the things have humility. It can be considered as thefirst complete describing of corneal edema as a sole ocular disorder inthe history.

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