DIVORCE AMONG SAUDI FEMALE LEPROTIC PATIENTS: AN EXPERIENCE AT IBN SIN A HOSPITAL Sir, As divorce is becoming a social and family threat to leprotic women elsewhere, we would like to share our experience on this important subject here at the Ibn Sina Hospital, Hadda, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Social problems in leprosy are common and complex in character. Poverty plays an important role ...

ibn sina speaks repeatedly of the distinction between the specific (khas) being and the positive (ijabi) being; a distinction on the basis of which is his distinction of being and essence. thence, the famous problem of the distinction of being and essence is applicable to this distinction too. the difficulty is this: if the specific being is 'being'? this is indeed a problem about ess...

İbn Nefis XIII. yüzyılda yaşamış olan değerli bir bilim insanıdır. Sorgulayan ve araştıran kimliğiyle ön plana çıkan özellikle tıp ilminde İkinci “İbn Sina” olarak da kabul görmüştür. Nefis’in esas tanınırlığı ise pulmoner dolaşımla ilgili literatüre yapmış olduğu katkılardır. Harvey’den çok daha önce küçük kan dolaşımını keşfetmiştir. uzun yıllar ders kitabı okutulan pek eser de bırakmıştır. B...

Renal Stone is one of the fairly common diseases in all over the world. According to statistics , its prevalence in America is between 10 to 15% (1). Iran and its neighbors such as Turkey and Pakistan locate on stone-making region. The exact prevalence and incidence rates of urinary calculi in Iran are not clear (2). Since a) mortality rate in this disease is not high, b) there is no longer tim...

After the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, scientific progress in Europe had come to a standstill. This era between fall of Rome and the Renaissance is commonly known as the dark ages. However, from the 8th till 13th century, scientific and cultural knowledge had flourished in the Islamic world. This period, which began soon after the establishment of the Abbasid Khalifate in Baghdad in the ...