JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Year:2017 | Volume:6 | Issue:3 |Papers Count:8

International Society for the History of Pharmacy (ISHP) is an old society (established in 1926) which aims to handle “ all matters of a pharmaceutical historical nature without commercial interests. It endeavors to reach its goal by promoting research in writing and teaching the history of pharmacy as well as disseminating knowledge and obtaining recognition for this discipline. Its institutions serve this purpose...

International Society for the History of Pharmacy (ISHP) is an old society (established in 1926) which aims to handle “ all matters of a pharmaceutical historical nature without commercial interests. It endeavors to reach its goal by promoting research in writing and teaching the history of pharmacy as well as disseminating knowledge and obtaining recognition for this discipline. Its institutions serve this purpose...

Menstrual period is one of the girl’ s puberty stages, in which any change can expose a woman’ s sex life to natural fertility or infertility. Dysmenorrhea is a kind of pelvic pain that 50-90% of reproductive women experience during their lives. It is the greatest cause of lost working and school days among young women that decreases the quality of life. There is a great trend to use Traditional Medicine recommendations and prescriptions in the world. As a result, searching the literature and finding common points in Traditional Medicine and Gynecology is necessary. This way, opening up new avenues in the treatment and control of dysmenorrhea, possibly avoids wasting time and community’ s investment and enhances the quality of life of women. While searching ancient PM texts during 9th-19th A. D., there are many overlapping conditions, which may mimic this disorder. There are not any particular terms and definitions for dysmenorrhea, while, it is mentioned in Persian Medicine literature under different names such as Ojae Rahem (Uterus pain), Osr-o Tams (dysmenorrhea) and Oja-e Zahr (back pain). There are many management lines for women in the TPM literature which have been of great interest to physicians throughout the history, but among menstrual changes, dysmenorrhea is not the earliest concern. First explanation of dysmenorrhea was found in the Al-Zahrawi‘ s masterpiece of Al-tasrif in detail. It can be helpful to test these suggestions as ideas for clinical researches.

Men’ s hypersexuality was called in ancient Greece “ satyriasis” (Greek: Σ α τ υ ρ ί α σ η ). Satyrs, were depicted in ancient Greek mythology as half men and half goats, given to lecherous revelry in their dedication towards the exaggerated appetites, being lower class deities who accompanied Dionysus. Aretaeus of Cappadocia, gave a masterful description of the disease, supporting the Hippocratic doctrine of the four humours, and considering the excess of the blood inside the big arteries of the kidneys as the main pathological cause of the penile erection. He had proposed various remedies, and considered that Satyriasis was an acute fatal disease that could kill the sufferer within seven days.

For the first time, I became familiar with Professor Moharreri c. a. 1997 because of transferring a very old version of Zakhireh Kharazmi copied and given to him by my supervisor, Prof. Dr. Moattar. It was a long time when this famous Shirazi psychiatrist had been working on compiling this unique traditional Persian medical text in which he encountered and later reported tale-therapy, music-therapy, and other wonderful traditional psychological treatments. After that, I had this chance to visit him continuously in Hekmat, the Traditional and Islamic Medical group, Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences (IAMS) where he, as a permanent member, used to attend frequently up to the time when he lost physical abilities...

Following outbreaks of plague in the West of Iran, Pasteur Institute of Iran (PII) established a research center for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases in Akanlu, a village of Hamadan, in 1952, and controlled this deadly disease by the support of Dr. Marcel Balrazard, the director of PII. Furthermore, the research team of PII studied Tularemia, relapsing fever and some other important infectious diseases based in this center. The activities of this center stopped for years. In 2010, this historical and public health center was renovated following signing a memorandum of understanding between PII and the Center for Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health. Right now, this center focuses on plague, tularemia and Q fever. It does also study within the field of monitoring of other emerging and reemerging diseases, including Borreliosis and Brucellosis. This article reviews the important activities of this center during its 65-year history.

Recognition of valid sources is one of the important and essential stages of any research. The purpose of this research has been to introduce the medical works of the digital collections of the Research Center of Quran, Hadith and Medicine’ s Sciences of Tehran University of Medical Sciences to facilitate access to resources and to pave the way for research. This article which is based on a descriptive method, by referring directly to the files of each work, its content has been studied independently to identify the medical works from non-medical ones. After required reviews, the medical works of this collection were divided into three sections including: 1-medical work with a specific compilation date 2-medical work with unspecified compilation date and 3-collections (including more than one work in a book or treatise). In the following, the classification of works was done based on overall content and academic topics. According to the type of publication, the above works were divided into four groups of manuscripts, lithography, lead print and new print. Finally, the type of language used in writing these works was discussed. As a result, the number of works based on the date of writing, types of works according to overall content, scientific issues raised, the way of publishing works regarding the existence of manuscripts and print works and also the language of their writing were determined.

Documents are important sources of investigating historical events. Most documents are official and have been written by government agents. These documents give up useful data to historians about political history. Nontheles, politics is not always the subject of all historical documents, however, they can be significant sources in social studies. One of these documents is about Dar-al Shafa-e Astan-e Ghods-e Razavi in Khorasan Province. This Dar-al Shafa is very old; present documents shed light on the activities of this institute in Safavid era. The number of discovered documents in Dar-al Shafa-e Astan-e Ghods-e Razavi is 35 thousands, and their subjects are medical activities, costs of Dar-al Shafa, wages of doctors and nurses and also the roster of medications. Some of these documents have been copied and published. In this work, two documents of Dar-al Shafa-e Astan-e Ghods-e Razavi dated to the first and third of Jamadi al-Sani 1303 H. D. are investigated and analyzed. These documents address the costs, names of patients and the roster of medications. These documents have not been corrected and published until now.