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...

reflektuju daleko starija medicinska saznanja jos iz "Starog carstva" [1]. Najpoznatiji i najveci rukopisi Sll tzv. Smitov (Smith) I Ebersov (Ebers) papirus koji datiraju iz 17. i 16. veka p.n.e. Medutirn i pored brojnih dokaza 0 razvijenosti medicinske delatnosti II starom Egiptu malo je ostalo imenom zabelezenih lekara. Prvi lekar u starom Egiptu cije je ime ostalo zabelezeno, a ujedno je to ...

virna francuskog hirurga Ambroise Pare-a (15101590) (Slika 2) iz 1582. godine. Caspar Bauchin je 1579. godine postavio hipotezu 0 ulozi crvuljka kao rezervoara za feces ploda tokom intrauterinog zivota. Moguce je da je on zamenio crvuljak sa divertikulumorn koga Johan Friedrich Meckel (18101894) opisuje dvesta godina kasnije [3]. Najznacajniji anatom XVIII veka, Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1687...

In this article, we describe some features of a rediscovered medical text written in old Persian (Farsi Dari) over one thousand years ago and discuss some of its significant attributes in relation to the historical background of the Iranian scientific and literary renaissance of that era.

While the introduction of radioactive tracers in the study of metabolic pathways has been well-documented in clinical thyroidology as early as 1924, the widespread utilization in other clinical specialties has been hampered by slow developments in radiation-detecting devices and in the production of appropriate radiopharmaceuticals, in addition tothe morbid fear of radiation. In the Philippines...

OBJECTIVES It was investigated how students judge the teaching of medical ethics and the history of medicine at the start and during their studies, and the influence which subject-specific teaching of the history, theory and ethics of medicine (GTE)--or the lack thereof--has on the judgement of these subjects. METHODS From a total of 533 students who were in their first and 5th semester of th...