al-Rifai K M
Department of Ophthalmology College of Medicine, King Saud University Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Int Ophthalmol. 1988;12(1):9-14. doi: 10.1007/BF00133774.
History of 'ophthalmia' is as old as history itself; no race or community is immune to it. There were times when blinding trachoma took a form of disastrous epidemics. The historical and recent literature are reviewed in this paper.
“眼炎”的历史与历史本身一样古老;没有哪个种族或群体能对其免疫。曾几何时,致盲性沙眼以灾难性流行病的形式出现。本文对历史文献和近期文献进行了综述。