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Strabismus care: Past, present and future

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The history of ophthalmologyFootnote 1 begins with the development of the culture which started during the Bronze age in the rich alluvial valleys of the rivers Euphrates-Tigris, and Nile, the Indus, and the Yellow River. Recovered documents of the Sumerians of Mesopotamia reveal that medicine was practiced as far back as 3000 B. C.

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  1. Vol. II, 1961 edition of duke Elder p. 3 to 35 contains a concise well referenced historical treatise on the early history of ophthalmology. From this source such a large portion of this paper dealing with the history through the fifteenth century was obtained that it is impossible to reference each item.

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    Marshall M. Parks M.D.

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Delivered as the first annual Clement J. Smith Lecture at the Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Foundation and Department of Visual Sciences, University of the Pacific.

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Parks, M.M. Strabismus care: Past, present and future. Doc Ophthalmol 34, 301–315 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151817

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