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A medieval fallacy: the crystalline lens in the center of the eye

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether, as most modern historians have written, ancient Greco-Roman authors believed the crystalline lens is positioned in the center of the eye. BACKGROUND: Historians have written that statements about cataract couching by Celsus, or perhaps Galen of Pergamon, suggested a...

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Autores principales: Leffler, Christopher T, Hadi, Tamer M, Udupa, Akrithi, Schwartz, Stephen G, Schwartz, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27114699
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S100708