Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
2 Healing the eyes
In this section, you will investigate in more detail what was done for eye disease, particularly in the Roman world, looking at both salves and surgery.
Figure 6 Doctor examining the eye of a patient
Stone-carved relief of an eye doctor examining the eyes of a patient.
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