Lascaratos J
Doc Ophthalmol. 1992;81(1):145-52. doi: 10.1007/BF00155024.
A series of cures for ophthalmological diseases practised by saints are described, particularly the Saints Cosmas and Damian and the Saints Cyrus and John, the famous 'Anargyroi'. In the xenones of the Byzantine churches and in the hospitals connected to these, therapeutic regimes, cures and surgical interventions took place at night during incubation, following the example of the ancient Asclepieia. This conclusion stands in spite of the fact that the authors describing the lives of the saints were often clergy who frequently cloak the true therapeutical cures by presenting them in a supernatural manner in order to stress the divine intervention of the saints. From the operations mentioned, it is clear that cataract surgery was among the operations most frequently practised.
文中描述了圣徒们施行的一系列眼科疾病治疗方法，尤其是著名的“无钱治病者”圣科斯马斯和达米安以及圣库罗斯和约翰。在拜占庭教堂的客栈以及与之相关的医院里，仿照古代阿斯克勒庇俄斯神庙的做法，在夜间进行孵化治疗期间实施治疗方案、进行治疗和手术干预。尽管描述圣徒生平的作者往往是神职人员，他们常常以超自然的方式呈现真正的治疗方法，以强调圣徒的神圣干预，但这一结论依然成立。从提及的手术来看，很明显白内障手术是最常施行的手术之一。
