مطالعات تاریخ پزشکی (journal of research on history of medicine)
سال:1393 | دوره:3 | شماره:3 |تعداد مقالات:5

The Fatimid era (358-567 AH /968-1171AD) was one of the most brilliant historical periods due to its intellectual and cultural achievements and successes.influencing an area beyond its boundaries. Due to their attempts, Cairo turned into one of the artistic, cultural, and scientific Islamic centers and it became the focus of research and science.During this period, there were numerous debates among doctors which led to the flowering of this science Different gifts were dedicated to the scholars’ tuition fees and physicians’ salaries. Whenever caliph identified a physician as qualified in his career, he was empowered and favored by the caliph, and became his close friend.Medicine was in the hands of Jewish and Christian physicians in Fatimid territory during Moez and Aziz caliphs, until the mid-fifth century. This continued up to Alhakem period during which Sunni people attempted to challenge their authority and seize their position.Some specific diseases were more common in Egypt; including eye diseases, cholera, and plague which got epidemic successively because of the ongoing famine in Egypt.This study is a piece of library research which makes use of Arabic, Persian, and Latin sources regarding the development of Islamic medicine during the Fatimid period in Egypt.

Spine Surgery began its evolution in the beginning of the 19th century in order to reach nowadays the point of being considered an important subspecialty of Neurosurgery and Orthopaedics. The purpose of this historical review is the search and evaluation of the progress in spine surgery in the second half of the 20th century. This review concerns the evolution of this field in Greece. Special references are made to the achievements of this field, to the departments that practised it, to physicians and surgeons (orthopaedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, radiologists and rheumatologists) who developed this subspecialty and to clinical and scientific work of this time period. Eventually, the progress of medicine and technology who led to the first achievements of this subspecialty are shown and also that this progress followed the development of the National Healthcare System. In Greece, with small exceptions, the new techniques emerged with a certain delay.

Dear Editor: Contentment drug (darug i hunsandih) is a short passage in Pahlavi language in which instructions for preparing a virtual drug, called contentment drug, are provided, using medical terminology and common practices of medicine in ancient times1. In fact, this Pahlavi text makes some recommendations in common medical terminology to accomplish more happiness...