Thābit
ibn Qurra (full name: Abū al-Ḥasan
Ṯhābit ibn Qurra ibn Zahrūn al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ) was a scholar known for his work in
mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and translation. He was born in 826 or 836
and died on February 19, 901.
Thābit
was born in Harran in Upper Mesopotamia, which at the time was part of the
Diyar Mudar subdivision of the al-Jazira region of the Abbasid Caliphate. He
spent most of his life in Baghdad.
Thābit
was a well-known physician of his time and produced several medical treatises
and commentaries. His works included general reference books such as al-Dhakhira
fī ilm al-tibb ("A Treasury of Medicine"), Kitāb
al-Rawda fi l–tibb ("Book of the Garden of Medicine"),
and al-Kunnash ("Collection").
Thabit
was the first to describe occlusion therapy for treating lazy eye or amblyopia.
He suggested the closure of the normal eye with a patch to strengthen the lazy
eye by forcing the “visual spirit” to transfer into the lazy eye: This was a
leading breakthrough in ophthalmology.
REFERENCES:
- Abudawood GA, Alshareef R, Alghamdi S. Arab and Muslim scientists and their contributions to the history of ophthalmology. Saudi J Ophthalmol 2020;34:198-201.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C4%81bit_ibn_Qurra
No comments:
Post a Comment