The subject of this paper is the story of an ancient medical instrument. This instrument is a wooden vaginal speculum used in classical and Islamic medicine. Its drawings can be found in Abulcasis al-Zahrawi's and Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu's illustrated books of surgery.

For the first time Willem Floor in his interesting and worthy reading work, Public health in Qajar Iran, has correctly considered the general concept of medicine» in Iran derived from three sources: Galenic medicine, religious medicine and traditional medicine. According to Floor, (which later studies also confirm it), the Islamic period medical knowledge in Iran,&nbsp...

1Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute for Cognitive Science Studies, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Dental Anatomy, Faculty of Dentistry, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 3Programme in Experimental Medicine and Therapy, Doctoral School in Life and Health Sciences, Maxillofacial Surgery Section, Surgical Sciences Department, S. Giovanni Battista Hospital, University of Turin, Turin,...

Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran; Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; Department of Microbiology and Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia; E-...

Abdul MALIK, Abd Wahid HARON*, Rosnina YUSOFF, M. NESA, Muhammad BUKAR, Azhar KASIM Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Islamic Kalimantan University, Banjarmasin, Indonesia Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universit...

Department of Veterinary Sciences, Baft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Baft, Iran, Cardiovascular Research Center, Institute of Basic and Clinical Physiology Sciences, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran, 4 Physiology Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacolo...

MD, Corresponding author, academic member, Iranian Institute for Encyclopedia research, Department of Medical Sciences, MSRT, Allameh Tababataei University, Tehran, Iran, PO Box 19615-866, E mail: [email protected] MD, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. MSc, Special Medical Center, Tehran, Iran MSc, Biology Department, Science and Research Branch, Islami...

Cupping is a tradittional concept thought to help in medical conditions and has become increasingly more popular in certain environments. We present a review on cupping with its potential applications in modern medicine with a focus on the Islamic perspective of this technique.