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The book of the ten treatises on the eye ascribed to Hunain Ibn Is-hâq. The earliest existing systematic text-book of ophthalmology. The Arabic text from the only two known manuscripts, with an English translation and glossary by Max Meyerhof.
Cairo: Government Press, 1928.
The earliest extant systematic textbook of ophthalmology. The Arabs were the first to make a specialty of ophthalmology.
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| Entry Number | #5814.1 |
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| External URL | the-book-of-the-ten-treatises-on-the-eye-the-arabic-text-from-the-only-two-known-manuscripts-with-an-english-translation-and-glossary |
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Publication place: Cairo