Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...

A 29-year-old man, with no significant past medical history, was in his usual state of health until the afternoon of admission. The patient was seated at work eating lunch when he suddenly noticed that his vision became blurry. He covered his right eye and had no visual difficulty but noted blurry vision upon covering his left eye. At this point, the patient tried to stand up, but had difficult...

Polygamy is a risk factor for incest. This case report of incest and polygamy portrays the dynamics that dominated this family's identity. The father indoctrinated and groomed his biological daughter and stepdaughter for sexual gratification in a cult-like atmosphere, and secretly married both of them. He justified his acts to the family members under the guise of religion, but he later denied ...

ferdowsi has remonstrated philosophy and philosophers in his shahnameh. was he really opposed to rationalism? it’s not the thing gotten of shahnameh. he invites his readers to live wise, so he can’t be against wisdom. are philosophers in a coherent group with shared ideas? ferdowsi era doesn’t include such a thing. so which group of philosophers was exposed to his critical considerations? hakim...

SECTION 1 A 20-year-old man presented to the emergency department with 1 week of headaches and double vision following 2 days of fever (1028F), nausea, and vomiting. His headache was progressively worsening, throbbing behind his right eye, nonpositional, and associated with photophobia, blurry vision, and pain with eye movement. Occasionally, it was severe enough to wake him up from sleep. Hori...

A 48-year-old man with no significant past medical history but a family history of collagen vascular disorders presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of being unable to walk. The patient had been in his usual state of health until approximately three weeks prior, when he first visited the emergency department for fever, chills, and bilateral shoulder pain. The physical exa...

DR. COURTENEY MACKUEN: The patient was a 36-yearold-man who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with the sudden-onset of substernal chest pain that woke him from sleep just prior to arrival. The pain was sharp and radiated down his left arm. It was associated with shortness of breath and diaphoresis. He had never experienced similar pain previously. The patient was otherwise a healthy, e...