Doctors working in the medieval Islamicate world engaged critically with the material concerning ophthalmology that was inherited from Graeco-Roman antiquity. This field of medicine was called kuḥl in Arabic...
As in early modern Europe, most people in medieval Islamicate society received medical care from female family members. Contemporary male doctors viewed these women, who acted as nurses and midwives, as stiff competition, and so…
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