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In the Middle Ages, surgery and topical medicine were already in use to treat eye conditions (wellcomecollection.org)

submitted 2 years ago by dankeck to c/humanities

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Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives that they were studying.

H/T @JudeSeal@historians.social

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