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Cataract surgery in ancient Egypt.
J Cataract Refract Surg. 2014 Mar; 40(3):485-9.JC

Abstract

Ophthalmology was one of the most important specialties in Egyptian medicine, and more specialists are known in this field than in any other. This specialization seems, however, to have been of a purely noninvasive nature. Even though it has been claimed that cataract surgery was performed in pharaonic Egypt, careful analysis of the sources does not support the claim. No example of cataract surgery or of any other invasive ophthalmologic procedure can be found in the original sources.

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Blomstedt P
From the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. Electronic address: patric.blomstedt@neuro.umu.se.

MeSH

CataractCataract ExtractionEgypt, AncientHistory, AncientHumansMedical IllustrationOphthalmology

Pub Type(s)

Historical Article
Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

24485861

Citation

Blomstedt, Patric. "Cataract Surgery in Ancient Egypt." Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, vol. 40, no. 3, 2014, pp. 485-9.
Blomstedt P. Cataract surgery in ancient Egypt. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2014;40(3):485-9.
Blomstedt, P. (2014). Cataract surgery in ancient Egypt. Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 40(3), 485-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrs.2014.01.006
Blomstedt P. Cataract Surgery in Ancient Egypt. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2014;40(3):485-9. PubMed PMID: 24485861.
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