Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, by ELIAS ASHMOLE, reprint of the London 1652 ed., with introduction by Allen G. Debus, New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966, pp. xlix, 486, illus., no price stated. Alchemy, like Astrology, is a close relative of Medical History-there are many dramatis personae whom they have in common from antiquity to the eighteenth century and some of these form the best...

Although the medical history of each country is closely related with that of other countries, Iranian medicine, along with the Greek and Arabic ones, provided a series of completing thoughts by virtue of “philosophy of history.” Always, the pioneers have attempted to transfer their thoughts and experiences to the next generation, and other people have attempted to add some issues and experience...

Wasim Maziak Syria Of all its accomplishments, the West is perhaps most proud of its scientific revolution, which has been unfolding for the past halfmillennium. Only students of history remain consistently mindful of the pivotal and catalytic role that the Arab world played in the early phases of this revolution. Now, all of us should have a vested interest in advancing science and technology ...

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, by ELIAS ASHMOLE, reprint of the London 1652 ed., with introduction by Allen G. Debus, New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966, pp. xlix, 486, illus., no price stated. Alchemy, like Astrology, is a close relative of Medical History-there are many dramatis personae whom they have in common from antiquity to the eighteenth century and some of these form the best...

THE MEDICAL and surgical scenes depicted by Netherlandish artists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have attracted the admiring attention of historians of medicine to such a degree that almost no book on "art and medicine" omits such paintings as Jan Steen's A love-sick (or pregnant) girl visited by a physician (several versions) or Gerrit Dou's Quacksalver (Rotterdam, Boymans-van Beun...

it is my great honor announcing the promotion of the archives of bone and joint surgery (abjs) to the level of being available on the pubmed central site. being precise, one year ago in september 2013, we published the first issue of the abjs. diligently thereafter, we published four subsequent issues with the fifth being in front of you. we set this as our first goal to reach visibility on pub...

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been recognized for millennia. The great physicians Rhazes (865–925 AD) and Abu Sina (aka Avicenna, 980–1037 AD) in ancient Persia described kidney diseases in detail. In medieval times, the pisse prophets predicted outcomes for patients on the basis of uroscopy analyses. Categorization of CKD developed in the 20 century from the nonspecific “Bright’s disease” w...

concerning the article on ”cataract surgery in albucasis manuscript” pages 75-76 which is published in this issue of iranian journal of ophthalmology (irjo) a few points took my attention worth mentioning.     the science of ophthalmology and cataract surgery was developed 6,000 years ago, not in egypt but at mesopotamian region. the babylonians mastered this science 2,000 years before the glor...