The first man reported in the world literature exhibiting habitual quadrupedal locomotion was discovered by a British traveler and writer on the famous Bagdad road near Havsa/Samsun on the middle Black Sea coast of Turkey (Childs, 1917). The man most probably belonged to a Greek family, since the region of Havsa was populated by Greek people during the time of the Ottoman Empire. He possibly be...

The health and education institutions that were established based on Foundation tradition starting from the Umayyad and Abbasid, and especially in the Seljuk and Ottoman periods in the Turkish-Islam civilization where the patients were treated without expecting anything in return and health information based on practice and observation were provided were named “Darüşşifa”. It is derived from wo...

Osmanlı Devleti Birinci Dünya Savaşı’na girdikten sonra Alman Kızılhaçı (Das Deutsche Rote Kreuz) ve Alman-Osmanlı Sağlık Misyonu (Deutsch-Osmanische Sanitätsmission) gibi kuruluşlar cephelerinde mücadele eden askerlerine sağlık hizmeti sağlamak amacıyla İstanbul, Gelibolu, Bağdat Tekirdağ vd. bölgelerde askerî hastaneler açmışlardı. Bu aynı zamanda Hilal-i Ahmer (Kızılay) Cemiyeti, Harbiye Nez...