Indigenous practices among Palestinians for healing eye diseases and inflammations.
This paper briefly describes the state health services in general, and eye care in particular for Palestinian Arabs under the British Mandate (1917-1948). The paper will also discuss the environmental and cultural origins of the prevalence of eye diseases among Palestinian Arabs. The second part of the research describes in detail indigenous practices of traditional medicine for healing trachoma and other eye diseases, inflammation that were prevalent in Mandatory Palestine.
Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva, Israel. aref@bgu.ac.il
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D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D008519:Medicine, Traditional / Q000266:history*; D008877:Middle East; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history