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medical books written in islamic societies have devoted special chapters to preventive medicine named hefzossehha’. nowadays, ferdous alhekmah is considered as the first medical text authored by muslim scientists in islamic countries. but in this review study we offer a more ancient text that belongs to ali ibn musa (imam reza pbuh), the 8th imam of shi’ites. this text was written about 815-818...

avicenna, a muslim scientist of the tenth and eleventh centuries has an important place in the history of medicine in iran and the world. furthermore, the modern medicine is laid upon the infrastructure of his medicine. in this article, the position of avicenna in the medical history and the scientific influence of his medical works in particular al-canon in the development of medical literatur...

that the nursing sisters of a French asylum recognized that a patient's behaviour seemed to be that of an epileptic, but she does notfall. 'Les religieuses me disent: "elle est mechante comme une epileptique, mais elle ne tombe pas." ' The revision has taken into account such concepts as psychomotor epilepsy and temporal lobe epilepsy, 'which were as yet rare or non-existent at the writing of t...

ibn abi sadiq neishaboori  was the iranian philosopher and medical scientist in the fifth century ah. in addition to writing a number of books in traditional medicine, he wrote commentary explanations on important books of famous greek and roman physicians, hippocrates and galen. because of this, he was called hippocrates the second.ibn abi sadiqwas the student of avicennaand the teacher of jor...

In spite of their therapeutic significance for much of human history, mineral waters have been largely ignored by historians of medicine. One suspects that this neglect has to do with the perception that spa medicine has owed more to human credulity than to medical science. This volume of essays suggests that such neglect and dismissal are about to give way to more thoughtful assessment. Althou...