مطالعات تاریخ پزشکی (journal of research on history of medicine)
سال:1397 | دوره:7 | شماره:1 |تعداد مقالات:7

One well-cited assertion in the literature is a lack of data about health, physicians and their lives in Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century, which is expected due to deficiency of original resources from that time. Previous studies identified only three physicians without remarkable data about their lives. This article introduces Abdullah bin Anis, a new physician who was unknown previously and presented novel information about medicine and its practice in Prophet Muhammad’ s time (ca 609).

Trachoma and its complications, including blindness, is one of the problems that has always threated human society. This disease was known among Iranian physicians since past time in Iran and there had been signs of disease description and its treatment methods in ancient books. At the beginning of twentieth century, by discovering the cause of the disease, comprehensive actions were taken by Iranian government to eradicate this disease. These actions included public treatment in community as well as health education in schools. Also clinics and ophthalmologists have begun to treat the disease with new methods. The results of this study based on the study of documents, remaining evidence and the statistics of patients in different regions indicate that although Iranian government managed to control the disease and its complications, but it never succeeded in eradicating Trachoma.

Dear Editor: Raymond Tripier (1838-1916) (Figure 1) was not only a distinguished university Professor in Lyon, but also a great figure in medical research, who decisively influenced the establishment of the French cardiology and internal medicine, this is while his contribution remained etched in world history of cardiology.

Dear Editor: Viruses and drugs are well-known teratogens. In 1941, rubella virus was shown to cause severe birth defects such as cataracts, deafness and cardiac defects. Thalidomide received worldwide attention in the 1950s, after over 10, 000 neonates were born with malformations1, 2.