Traditional medicine with its therapeutical materia medica goes back many centuries to before Avicenna, Razi…. Our studies are based: on our observations, particularly in rural families; on our practical experience in pharmacies during summer holidays in Tehran; and on lectures and study of handwritten manuscripts (in Persian, Arabic, French …) such as Canoun of Avicenna, Tohfe Hakim Momen or o...

From its dramatic rise in the seventh century, Islamic civilization has covered a large part of the globe, incorporating many subcultures and languages into its orbit (http:// www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/med_islam.html). Islamic medicine typifies that experience, being built on the theoretical and practical knowledge first developed in Greece and Rome. For Islamic scholars, Galen (d. ca. 210 AD)...

Objectives: COVID-19, a novel Coronavirus from same family as SARS-CoV-2 is highly contagiousvirus. It transmitted mainly upper respiratory system and affects important organs, like heartand lungs. The aim of this study identifying appropriate therapeutic methods originated persianmedicine. Materials Methods: This has been designed the viewpoints traditional andmodern medicine. Considering mode...

Traditional medicine with its therapeutical materia medica goes back many centuries to before Avicenna, Razi…. Our studies are based: on our observations, particularly in rural families; on our practical experience in pharmacies during summer holidays in Tehran; and on lectures and study of handwritten manuscripts (in Persian, Arabic, French …) such as Canoun of Avicenna, Tohfe Hakim Momen or o...

Paracelsus very likely studied the arts at the University of Vienna and medicine at the University of Ferrara in Italy. He recognised the relative development standstill of Middle Ages. He had the courage of his convictions and burned the works of Galen and Avicenna in public in 1527, as town physician of Basel. He denounced ancients in harsh terms, refusing to accept their theory of humours. H...

men was rarely used in ancient Egypt, not until much later in its history, but the name stuck and has remained in popular usage. The Egyptians would never have used the word mummy, it has been suggested3 that their word would have been Sahu, which means, an embalmed cadaver. Long after mummification was abandoned, extracts of mummies were used for all sorts of purposes. The Arab physician Avice...

This is a partial contribution to an understanding of the history of the reception and transmission of classical Hippocratic and Galenic texts in Italy's modern period. By examining rotuli and puncti of the School of Medicine of Padua University, which record the subjects and content taught in the period between 1500 and 1600, one can study the official curriculum of this famous school. Perusal...

In his book "Canon in Medicine (AI-Ghanoon)", Avicenna has specified a chapter containing two sections pertaining to fever. After defining fever and explaining it's different stages, he divides it into three types: hectic fever, infection-induced fever and daily fever. After accurate attention to the patient's history and key-points in examination, he focuses on fever signs and its treatmen...