One well-cited assertion in the literature is a lack of data about health,physicians and their lives in Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century, whichis expected due to deficiency of original resources from that time.Previous ...

Being contemporary with Avicenna and Rhazes, Abu Maher Shirazi was born in Shiraz the 10th century AD. He was known as the rst inuential physician in Shiraz in the Islamic period and his students, such as Haly Abbas, ...

The research office for the history of Persian medicine will pay grant to the top researchers in the field of medical history. This award is named after Abumaher Shirazi, the father of Shiraz medical doctrine in 10th Century ...

One of the tragic consequences of the Great Wars is the spread of epi-demics. At the end of the First World War, flu spread in Europe and soon spread in many parts of the world including Iran. This event was accompanied ...

Ali-Ibn-e-Abbas-Al-Majusi, well known as Haly Abbas in the West, a physician, surgeon and psychologist of Buyid dynasty era, lived in the 10th century (A.D). He, along with Tabari, Razi, Avicienna, and Jorjani, established ...

Al-Akhawayni Bukhari(?-983 AD), great 10th century Persian physician, in his extant book entitled Hidayat(Guide) discussed different aspects of some neurologic diseases that include prevention, clinical findings, treatment, ...

Veterinary toxicology is one of the subspecialties of veterinary medicine. On the other hand, traditional medical sources also contain veterinary knowledge, entailing human medical information. In this study, we aimed to ...

Jundishapur is one of the most important centers for transferring medical knowledge from Persian civilization to Islamic civilization. The studies of this hospital-university center in recent decades have gone through at ...

Menstrual period is one of the girl’s puberty stages, in which any change can expose a woman’s sex life to natural fertility or infertility. Dysmenorrhea is a kind of pelvic pain that 50-90% of reproductive women experience ...

Surgical intervention was seen since mankind existed. The management of trauma was begun when first men suffered from wound complications in routine daily activity. The first Greek physicians combined magical and primitive ...

Iranian physicians stood at the forefront of medical innovation during the Islamic Golden Age of Medicine (9-11 CE). They played a pivotal role in the development and prosperity of medicine within the Muslim empire through ...

The purpose of this study is to summarize the treatment options for scoliosis and spine deformities from Antiquity through Medieval Times up to the Renaissance. Furthermore, it is to present the contribution of “the Father ...

Amir Seyyed Fathollah Shirazi, a physician, historian and politician of Indian Mughal Empire court, was one of the scholars of Shiraz. Initially, he served as a teacher at Mansurieh School in Shiraz. He worked for Imamgholi ...

During the Qajar period in the 19th century, various epidemics including cholera infected most parts of the country every year. Cholera appeared as a contagious and non-indigenous disease that spread in different parts of ...

Worldwide, infectious diseases have been one of the main factors of premature deaths for a long time. Due to the lack of proper social and cultural conditions, Iran suffered a lack of hygiene, particularly in provinces, ...

Optimal health care depends on facilities and conditions, such as equipment, medicine and specialized personnel, such as doctors and nurses. Concerning medicine, though briefly, one may find some information, there is ...