Né au Portugal, Rodrigo da Fonseca fut longtemps professeur de médecine à Pise avant de rejoindre l’Université de Bologne. Ses Consultations de 1619 comportent un traitement de tumeur la rate identifiée comme un squirrhe, la forme préliminaire du cancer. La conception galénique de la rate, de sa nature et de sa fonction éclaire les remèdes qui étai...
Published in Journal of medical biography
Tayādhūq, also known as Theodocus/Théodoros (d. early 8th century AD), was educated in the Gondēs̲h̲āpūr School and served the Sassanid kings. During this period, he contacted the Umayyad court and became the physician of Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf (d. 715 AD), the general governor of the Eastern regions of the caliphate. In addition to his knowledge on the ...
Published in Archives of toxicology
Toxicology has been one of the most important topics throughout the history of medicine. Persian medicine (PM) textbooks such as Al-Hawi fi Al-Tib of Rhazes (Razi) can be a useful source for novel information about toxicology and thus we aimed to elucidate Rhazes's methodology in toxicology based on this textbook. This research is a historical desc...
Published in Archives of Iranian medicine
Testing physicians and determining their professional qualifications have been significant issues in the educational and medical system of the Islamic civilization. The purpose of this study is to explain the views of Rhazes on how to test physicians in the book Al-Hawi Fi Al-Tibb. This library study has been done with descriptive-analytical method...
Medical authors either seek for innovation through criticism of their predecessors, or regard themselves as perpetuators of a tradition considered to be a foundation of reliable theory and practice. Galen, competing with his fellow physicians and frequently alluding to their work, enriches, unifies and transforms the so-called “Hippocratic” medicin...
Published in Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
After the emergence of Islam and its advancement in the past three centuries in various countries and the Muslims' acquaintance with civilizations emanating from the empires of Iran, Greece, and India, a civilization emerged that affected different aspects of people's lives in Islamic lands and other countries. One of the components of this civiliz...
Galen’s On the pulse for beginners (ca. 162-166 BC) is not a mere introductory treatise, but condenses nearly the whole Galenic pulse science, making it accessible. Thanks to its pedagogical character, the treatise is a part of the Alexandrian medical curriculum (the 6th-cent. Canon), as well as of the Arabic Summaria (6th-7th cent.). Widely commen...
Published in Complementary Medicine Research
Owing to the effect of acute and chronic hypohydration on health and the lethal effects of hyperhydration, an appropriate amount of water intake is important for each individual. Traditional Iranian medicine (TIM) is a holistic system one of whose important parts deals with lifestyles and how to maintain health, including the amount of water intake...
Published in International journal of preventive medicine
Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi (865-925 CE), who was known as "Rhazes" in the west, was a famous scientist of medieval ages. He has more than 200 books and treatises. His masterpiece on medicine "Kitab Al-Hawi Fi Al-Tibb" contains around 900 case reports. Some of the diseases which seem to be recently reported have been stated previously, b...
Published in Acta medico-historica adriatica : AMHA
Medical history explains that Persian physicians used scientific methods based on clinical experiences and observations for treatment from pre-Islamic time (before 637 AD) and centuries later (in the Islamic era). Rhazes was one of the Persian physicians acknowledged as a pharmacist, chemist and prominent scientific writer on various subjects of me...
