Historical Bibliography Updated: May 11, 2020
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.
Publication Details
Cairo: Government Press, 1928 CE.
The earliest extant systematic textbook of ophthalmology. The Arabs were the first to make a specialty of ophthalmology.
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Geographic Context
Publication place: Cairo