Indigenous practices among Palestinians for healing eye diseases and inflammations.

نویسنده

  • Aref Abu-Rabia
چکیده

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.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Dynamis

دوره 25  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005