Volume 1
The American encyclopedia and dictionary of ophthalmology / edited by Casey A. Wood, assisted by a large staff of collaborators.
- Date:
- 1913-1921
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The American encyclopedia and dictionary of ophthalmology / edited by Casey A. Wood, assisted by a large staff of collaborators. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Abumeron. One of the names of an illustrious Jewish oculist who lived in Spain at the end of the eleventh century. See Avenzoar. Aburchung'. (G.) Segmentation, subdivision. Abu Rub. bin Mansur bin Abi Abdallah bin Mansur alyamani. He was also known as zarrix-dast, or “Goldhand”—not, probably in allusion to his earning-poAver, but to his gentleness and skill. A distinguished Persian ophthalmologist of the 11th century, born at Gurgan on the Oxus, and educated both in his native Persian and in Arabic. His work. The Light of the Lyes, constituted the standard ophthal- mologic text-book in Persia for many centuries. The title of the volume was selected, according to the author himself, because he Avho reads and understands the work Avill preserve the light of his own eyes and never require the services of the ignorant physician. The book is Avritten in a prolix style and in question-and-anSAver form, after the fashion of the Avork of Hunain (q. v.). The Light of the Eyes consists of ten chapters, or books. The first treats of the Anatomy of the Eyes; the second, of Ocular Diseases Perceptible by the Senses; the third, of Ocular Diseases not Percep- tible by the Senses; the fourth, of the Treatment of Curable Dis- eases of the Eye; the fifth, of the Incurable; the sixth, of Ocular Hygiene: the seventh, of Ocular Surgery; the eighth, of Glaucoma; the ninth, of Simple, and the tenth of Compounded Medicines for the Treatment of Ocular Disease. In the seventh (the surgical) book of his Avork, Zarrin-Dast pre- sents the folloAving list of operations, AAddch, in his day, Avere per- formed upon the eye—a list Avhich is especially valuable, because by far the most comjDlete noAV extant from the Arabic middle ages: 1. The Scratching Out of Granulations. 2. The Removal of Chalazia. 3. The Removal of Calculi. 4. The Separation of SymbleiAharon. 5. The Trussing-Up of Superfluous and of IncurAung Hairs, and the Operation for Entropion. 6. The Transplantation of Superfluous Hairs, Avhen These are not Numerous, by means of the Needle. 7. The Bui’iiing of Superfluous Hairs Avith Chemical Caustics and Avith Fire, and the Gluing [fixing] of the Hair Avith Mastich. 8. The Eradication of Hydatids. 9. The Removal of Excresences from the Lid. 10. The Removal of the Ant-Like Ulcer. 11. The Relief of Lagophthalmos. 12. The Removal of Warts.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29000567_0001_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
