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HARRY SOBOTKA, Ph.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1957;57(3):366-375.

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Like all other branches of medicine, ophthalmology has made such fantastic strides during the last 100 years that the preceding millennia appear to us telescoped into a jumble of ignorance, incompetence, and superstition. The Renaissance prepared the European spirit for the subsequent blossoming of modern fundamental science during the golden age of science, the 17th and 18th centuries, which, in turn, led to the phenomenal development of the applied sciences since 1800. A closer scrutiny of the earlier state of science and of medicine, in particular before 1500, permits us, however, to discern that our subject during the Dark Ages had its ups and downs, its progresses and its regressions. Let us see what lessons may be drawn from history!

What are the sources of medieval ophthalmology? Medical books and manuscripts, letters and reports, and numerous legal and other documents relating to the practice of ophthalmology. During the middle ages, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

Department of Chemistry, Mount Sinai Hospital.

Footnotes
Received for publication Nov. 12, 1956.

Based on Lectures held before the Seminar on History of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, March 21, 1956, and before the New York Society for Clinical Ophthalmology, Nov. 5, 1956.

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