Deshpande, Vijaya Jayant (Author)
Indian Journal of History of Science
Volume: 48, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 175-205
The article gives details of discriptions on structure and working of eye, eye diseases and their treatment, sense organs and their seats in the body, mechanism and paths of perception of five senses in general and those of vision in particular, as gleaned from ancient Indian philosophical and medical works. It also examines specimens from these literatures to appreciate as to how the ophthalmic ideas evolved in India in the period and its further extension. The distinctive features of ophthalmic1 science that developed in the west have also been discussed.
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