Journal of - International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine

Abdul Nasser KAADAN, Mohammad Al HEREK
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Treatment
Hunain Ibn Ishaq suggests medication in his book of
ten articles as follows: (dropping in the eye with hot culver
blood or pigeon blood, hot woman milk, with powder
frankincense or salted water, and poultice eye by water
cooked with dry oregano and hyssop, if there is tumor
in the eye, band it with bandage taken from raisins Persians
skim mixed with honey water or vinegar, if the tumor
doesn’t decompose, mix with it powder radish, if
it doesn’t decompose, mix with it pigeons rubbish) (9).
By that he mentions group of items of plant and animal
medicines.
While at-Tabari in his book Fardos Alhekmah says: (to
treat Subconjunctival hemorrhage by dropping of pigeon’s
blood at its slaughter with a bit of Frankincense) (10).
But al- Mawsili’s medication for Subconjunctival hemorrhage
is related to its symptoms, signs and reasons, he
says: (Eye should be initiated and instilled by hot pigeon’s
blood, and stretching it with bandages, and if you do that it
is enough, if the problem progressed and the eye got some
pain, bleed its place and start to open cephalic, and scraping
red arsenic with woman milk, and distill from it three
drops in the eye in morning and in evening. If there is rupture
it should be treated by egg yolk with rose oil, and don’t
loose the bandages on the eye, and tell the patient to avoid
shouting, carrying heavy objects, and easier to nature, this
is convincing. And not need him to something else) (11).
In this way al-Mawsili has placed tips and instructions
for patients injured during the Subconjunctival hemorrhage
of the eye taken for treatment so that speeds up recovery.
While Ibn Sina separates regarding medication between
primary Subconjunctival hemorrhage and advanced Subconjunctival
hemorrhage at a late time Here. he says: (dropping
pigeons blood upon it, or turtledoves, or wild doves, in
particular under the feathers, if it was in the starting mixed
with something, such as clay, known Bakimulya, and Armenian
mud. while at its end, it should mix with analysts
even arsenic with sealed mud, it may treat with woman
milk mix with Frankincense, and salt water..) (12).
Al- Ghafiqi links the treatment with occurrence of tumor
or not, says: (The remedy for that if you are cautious of
a tumor that it should start to open cephalic vein, and drip
in the eye healthy woman milk, if reddish, swelling, and
blood are excess, then drip in the eye albumin and band
with protective thing. If the tumor doesn’t have impact,
then it must be dripped in the eye at beginning woman
milk, or blood of chicks getting of small feathers which
grow under the wing) (13).
Subconjunctival Hemorrhage in the Most Famous
Eye Islamic Medical Books
Here is the Khalifa Ibn Abi Almahasen al-Halabi mentions
the following pharmaceutical vocabularies: (Fenugreek,
cumin, Frankincense, sour pomegranate juice, women
milk, whichever as dripping, milk cheese as bandages,
Parsley Alofsntin if crushed, and screwed in linen cloth and
immersed in boiling water, and used as poultice of the eye,
the blood come out and becomes in that rag even if it was
squeezed the blood will run off, al-khelaf fruit and its water
as bandage, purslane with honey a bandage) (14).
While Al-Qaisi in his book “Result of thinking” mentions
most of the above-mentioned pharmaceutical vocabularies,
but at the beginning of treatment he puts alternative to
bleed if patient’s age did not help that is the cupping, and he
says: (if you afraid of tumor that you bleed it when patient’s
age help, otherwise you should cup him, and drip in the eye
albumin, and band it from outside to prevent tumor..) (15).
Results
Through this research (Subconjunctival Hemorrhage in
the most famous eye Medicine books in the Arab &Islam
medical heritage) we conclude the following results:
1. The Arab and Muslim scientists spoke about Subconjunctival
hemorrhage that occurs as a result of tearing
or breaking contact conjunctiva caused by a trauma and
this is what we found in modern medical literature and
the same expression (16).
2. They mentioned also that Subconjunctival hemorrhage
may be brackish due to difficult childbirth or severe
coughing, and the explanation is the high pressure inside
the blood vessels in the conjunctiva, which may
bleed as a result of this, and this is also true and supported
by modern medical literature (17).
3. Ghafiqi mentioned that The Subconjunctival hemorrhage
may occur without reason and this is also true
there may be bleeding under the conjunctiva alone and
without any convincing reason.
Conclusion
The above mentioned about subconjunctival hemorrhage
in the ophthalmology Arabic Islamic medical books
was correct and accurate from the point of view causes,
symptoms, signs and treatment.
It is a disease which might happens without a definit cause,
or due to high pressure inside the conjunctival blood vessels
or conjunctival trauma, and the management is to treat the
cause of subconjunctival hemorrhage and the hemorrhage it
self to make hemorrhage resolving and disappearing.
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