title: The blind beautiful eye.
abstract: Master Jehan Yperman, a medieval surgeon, observed that when the optic nerve is injured, the eye becomes blind and beautiful. This is an attempt to trace the footsteps of this forgotten surgeon and to track the history of the cosmetic use of the belladonna herb, as well as the concept of amaurotic mydriasis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Rambam (Maimonides) Medical Center, B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Feinsod
mesh_terms: D018643:Arab World; D001504:Beauty; D001533:Belladonna Alkaloids / Q000266:history; D001766:Blindness / Q000266:history*; D004534:Egypt; D018645:Greek World; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D015878:Mydriasis / Q000266:history; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history*; D018644:Roman World
chemical_list: D001533:Belladonna Alkaloids