Muhammad ibn Aslam al-Ghafiqi

12th-century Andalusian ophthalmologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Muhammad ibn Aslam al-Ghāfiqī (Arabic: محمد بن أسلم الغافقي) (died 1165) was an Andalusian Arab oculist and author of The Right Guide to Ophthalmology (Kitāb al-Murshid fi’ l-kuḥl).[1]

Statue of Al-Ghafiqi in Córdoba

Work

The Right Guide to Ophthalmology shows that the physicians of the time had a complex understanding of the conditions of the eye and eyelids, which they treated with many different surgical procedures, ointments, and chemical medicines.[2]

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