haly ‘abbas, iranian celebrated physician who wrote an excellently organized medical compendium

Haly Abbas and the Early Description of Obstructive Jaundice

1. Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2. Essence of Parsiyan Wisdom Institute, Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Plant Incubator, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3. Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 4. Research Office for the History of Persian Me...

Who Wrote the Torah

The issue of the authorship of the Torah is important for at least this one reason: since the book claims to have been written by a certain writer, it is simply a matter of integrity that that claim is verified. If this claim to authorship is not substantiated, then why should we trust what that book says? In short, if the Torah claims to be written by Moshe, and we find that it is, in fact, no...

Who Wrote the Hippocratic Oath

haly abbas’ (? 930-994 ad) pulsology

abū l-ḥasan alī ibn al-‘abbās al-majūsī ahvazi (? 930-994 ad), best known as haly abbas in the west, was a 10th century persian physician whose lifetime coincided with the flourishing of medical science in the near east, the islamic medicine golden age, an era extending from the 9th to the 12th centuries ad. haly abbas, in his extant book kāmil al-sinā‘ah al-tibbīyah (the perfect book of the ar...

Borzouyeh, an Ancient Persian Physician Who First Reported Uterine Contractions in Normal Vaginal Delivery.

During the final hours of pregnancy, uterine contractions cause the foetus to move through the birth canal and leave the mother's body. Haly Abbas (died 982-994 CE), is believed to be the first writer to explain the role of these contractions. However, this concept had in fact been described in the text titled Bab-e-Borzouyeh, written four centuries earlier by the physician Borzouyeh (Perzoes i...

Who Wrote this Novel? Authorship Attribution across Three Languages

Based on different writing style definitions, various authorship attribution schemes have been proposed to identify the real author of a given text or text excerpt. In this article we analyze the relative performance of word types or lemmas assigned to represent styles and texts. As a second objective we compare two authorship attribution approaches, one based on principal component analysis (P...