This paper investigates some of the ways that Chinese medicine has been transferred to the Western world and to Islamic territories. During the Golden Age of Islam (8th to 13th century CE), the herbal drug trade promoted significant commercial and scientific exchange between China and the Muslim world. Chinese herbal drugs have been described by medieval Muslim medical scholars such as Tabari (...

hospitals have a long history throughout the history of medicine. first hospitals are originated from persia in ancient times in the sassanid dynasty (2nd to 6th century ad). after the advent of islam in persia (iran) in 637 ad, medical knowledge and also hospitals were ourished and advanced by persian scholars. shiraz azodi hospital and university was one of the important hospitals in persia....

1 Department of Pathology, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 3 General physician, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 4 Department of Biochemistry, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran. 5 Center for research of Mol...

one of the greatest physicians and encyclopedists in middle ages in europe was born in al-ahwaz (c.930) from old persian stock. ‘alī was moved to shīrāz at an early age and made his medical studies under a physician of this city, abū mahir mūsā ibn sayyar. he practised medicine in baghdad in mid – tenth century and served as physician to ‘adud al-dawla, to whom he dedicated his only composition...

One of the earliest descriptions neuralgia dates back to John Fothergill in 1773.1 However, concept nerve pain can be traced physicians like Rhazes (d. 925), Haly Abbas 982), Avicenna 1037), and Jorjani 1137) who discussed multiple aspects neuropathic including its classification, etiology, differentiating characteristics, qualities, pharmacologic nonpharmacologic treatments.2 Currently, neurop...

PARIVASH DAVOODIAN*, HABIB DADVAND**, MARZIEH RAZ-NAHAN***, SHAHRAM BAGHESTANI****, ABDOLALI MAHBUBI**** & AYUB BAGERI***** *Depatment of infectious Disease, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran **Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran ***Tuberculosis and leprosy center, Hormozgan, Iran ****Department of Dermatology, Hormozgan University of Medical ...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, hypertension is considered as a global public health issue and in recent decades, it has shown a growing trend due to changes in lifestyle. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this investigation was to compare symptoms of hypertension with known diseases in ancient medical texts and to find a disease that had the maximum overlap of symptoms with hypertension. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

BACKGROUND: Summary measures of health that combine mortality and morbidity into a single indicator are being estimated in the Canadian context for approximately 200 diseases and conditions. To manage the large amount of data and calculations for this many diseases, we have developed a structured workbook system with easy to use tools. We expect this system will be attractive to researchers fro...