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- Title
Management of childhood diseases during the Byzantine period: VI - Ocular diseases.
- Authors
Ramoutsaki, Ioanna A; Dimitriou, Helen; Kalmanti, Maria
- Abstract
Abstract Ocular manifestations were recognizable and are reported in the Byzantine medical treatises from the 4th to the 15th century AD. Herbal, mineral and chemical substances in the form of collyria were used by the Byzantine physicians for the treatment of ocular abnormalities and ophthalmic diseases of the childhood. Surgical intervention was not recommended at this age.
- Subjects
EYE diseases; OCULAR manifestations of general diseases; PEDIATRIC therapy; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Pediatrics International, 2002, Vol 44, Issue 5, p549
- ISSN
1328-8067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1442-200X.2002.01615.x