Survey of Ophthalmology
Volume 49, Issue 2 , Pages 256-261 , March 2004

The ophthalmic wound of Philip II of Macedonia (360–336 BCE)

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 The authors wish to thank Dr. Jonathan Musgrave and Mr. John Prag for their kind permission to republish their photo of the frontal bone of Tomb II, Vergina.

PII: S0039-6257(03)00180-2

doi: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2003.12.006

Survey of Ophthalmology
Volume 49, Issue 2 , Pages 256-261 , March 2004