8 articles in this issue
Arman Zargaran,Alireza Abbassian
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Esmaeil Sangari,Fereshteh Jaberi
Medicine is a manifestation of social life and intellectual infrastructure in every society at any time in history. As a technic focusing on needs, its existential roots can be found in any place in different eras. Although in pre-historic period medicine... see more
Javad Abdoli,Seyed Ali Motamedi,Arman Zargaran
Anesthesia is one of the main issues in surgery and has progressed a lot since two centuries ago. The formal history of surgery indicates that beginning of anesthesia backs to the 18th century, but reviewing the history of medicine shows that pain managem... see more
Masoumeh Dehghan,Mahboobeh Farkhondehzadeh
In the history of Islamic Medicine, honorable physicians have risen, however, some of them are lesser-known. Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Jazzar is one of the students of the medical school of Kairouan, who was scientifically active in the period of the F... see more
Zahra Hossein Hashemi,Masood Kasiri,Asghar Montazerolghaem
Eye and its treatments and surgeries used to be taken as a profession in old Islamic civilization and ophthalmology, just as surgery, used to be a completely independent branch of medicine. A glance on numerous works authored about the eye and its treatme... see more
Sholeh Maslehat,Ehsan Mostafavi
Due to the human plague epidemic in some regions of Kurdistan in 1947, research teams of the Pasteur Institute of Iran were sent to these regions for studies. Such studies are still ongoing. Mr. Mohammad Hanifi caught plague during its epidemic, and most ... see more
Mohammad Buketan Alharbi,?Ahmad Saud Alaskar,Turki Saad Alqahtani,Musaad Saud Bin Suwailem,Mohammed Bader Alsaleem,Yara Nasser Alanizi,Shamukh Hamid Alanazi,Sultana Hummod Alrwaili,Heba Mahmoud Algmmal,Ahlam Essam Saba,Azzah Abdullah Alazmi,Hamasat Mansour Alkusheif,Futun Fahad Alabdali
Venesection (FASD) (or the practice of drawing blood from a vein as a medical therapy) was first introduced by Ibn al-Quff in the 12th century, described in his book, al Omdaa (Arabic version). He explained in details how venesection (FASD) or bloodlettin... see more