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Video Short: History Hub - Who first described Uveitis?
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Who was the first person to describe Uveitis? Was it Galen, was it Hippocrates, was it Avicenna? Nope, before these luminaries, and even before ancient texts in Indian Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, we have to go back a few millenia to Imhotep the physician and architect. This isn’t the same Imhotep as in the film the Mummy though. But in the first ophthalmic document around 2640 BC he appears to describe the redness of inflammation in the eye. Even now, we are still exploring the landscape of Uveitis and unravelling its mysteries.
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