Practice and study of medicine in Iran has a long and prolific history. Iran has all characteristics of an indigenous culture which has so far discovered numerous natural products. Unfortunately, scant research has been ...

Cranial trephination is a technique which was used by ancient people to trephine skulls with some instruments. There are different types of trephination, the most common and primitive of which were trianglular and quadrangular ...

In 41 Ayat of Holy Quran, it is discussed about child birth, formation of fetus in uterus and also its process. It led to attention of Muslim scholars to this topic. They had wide researches and experiments on gynecology, ...

Baha' al-Dawlah Razi was one of the most important physicians in Safafid dynasty in Iran. He wrote his large medical book, Kholasat al-Tajarob at 1501 AD. He worked as physician in the courts of two dynasties, Teimurid and ...

This study is about philosophical view of Soltan Ali Khorasani Gonabadi, the writer of Dastur al-Alag manuscript, dating back to 1524 AD, on physicians. The original manuscript, kept at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences ...

Leprosy is an ancient disease, known from South Asia since at least 2000 BCE. While there is no physical evidence of this disease in the region before about 50 CE, five different words are translated as “leprosy" in ...