TY - JOUR ID - 45605 TI - Trachoma disease in Iran from the past to the end of the twentieth century JO - Journal of Research on History of Medicine JA - RHM LA - en SN - AU - Kasiri, Masoud AD - MD & PhD ,Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Literature and the Humanities, University Of Isfahan, Iran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 51 EP - 60 KW - Trachom KW - Iran KW - Iranian medicine KW - Qajar DO - N2 - Trachoma and its complications, including blindness, is one of the problems that has always threated human society. This disease was known among Iranian physicians since past time in Iran and there had been signs of disease description and its treatment methods in ancient books.At the beginning of twentieth century, by discovering the cause of the disease, comprehensive actions were taken by Iranian government to eradicate this disease. These actions included public treatment in community as well as health education in schools. Also clinics and ophthalmologists have begun to treat the disease with new methods.The results of this study based on the study of documents, remaining evidence and the statistics of patients in different regions indicate that although Iranian government managed to control the disease and its complications, but it never succeeded in eradicating Trachoma. UR - https://rhm.sums.ac.ir/article_45605.html L1 - https://rhm.sums.ac.ir/article_45605_f6605b63ad2a56716ebc8712a36931e2.pdf ER -