Introduction istorically, Hippocrates (460 – 377 B.C.) was the first physician who described the evacuation of pus from pleural space. Then, Galen (129 – 199 A.D.) wrote on the same procedure. 2 In Iran, some renowned physicians such as Ahwazi or Haly Abbas (10 century A.D.), Razi or Rhazes (865 – 925 A.D.), and Ibn-Sina or Avicenna (980 – 1037 A.D.) had also mentioned the chest diseases such a...

To the ancient Greeks, glaukos occasionally described diseased eyes, but more typically described healthy irides, which were glaucous (light blue, gray, or green). During the Hippocratic period, a pathologic glaukos pupil indicated a media opacity that was not dark. Although not emphasized by present-day ophthalmologists, the pupil in acute angle closure may appear somewhat green, as the mid-di...

Vitiligo is a common disorder of skin pigmentation. White spots of the skin are due to loss of melanocytes production (1). Multiple causes have been indicated for this issue by the researchers’ with the autoimmunity as the major one (2). The definitive treatment has not been provided so far. Over the past centuries, plants found in the natural habitat of Iran have thus played an important role ...

impact on Ibn Tufayl's forerunners, especially Avicenna, whom Ibn Tufayl quotes expressly. Salim Kemal's 'Justifications of poetic validity' gives a very condensed summary of his monograph The poetics ofAlfarabi and Avicenna (Leiden, 1991). But I doubt whether Ibn Tufayl's novel kind of thought experiment can be grasped in terms of Avicenna's poetology. The medieval Latin translators did not co...

Yassamine Bentata, Haddiya Intissar, Karimi Ilham, Benabdellah Nawal, Chemlal Abdeljalil, Redouane Abouqal Department of Nephrology, Medical School of Oujda, University Mohammed the First, Oujda, Morocco Medical Emergency Department, Ibn Sina University Hospital, Rabat, Morocco Laboratory of Biostatistics, Clinical and Epidemiological Research, Medical School University Mohamed V Souissi, Rabat...

SAMAR SALEH BAJRAI, BDS Dental Surgeon Faculty of Dentistry Ibn Sina National Hospital Jeddah 21418, Saudi Arabia T design features of many self-ligating brackets—sliding doors or spring clips, high profiles, and deep undercuts—can cause problems with indirect bonding, especially during tray removal. We use elastomeric ligatures to facilitate the procedure, as shown here with Damon 3MX* self-li...

this paper will examine ibn sina’s theory of the conditional syllogism from a purely logical point of view, and will lay bare the principles he adopted for founding his theory, and the reason why the newly introduced part of his logic remained undeveloped and eventually was removed from the texts of logic in the later islamic tradition. as a preliminary discussion, this paper briefly examines i...

The article highlights one of the most important aspects modernizing potential Falsafa (hellenizing philosophy classical Islam), associated with significance soteriological concept developed within its framework for that began in 19th century reconstruction theological discourse. On example activity Jamaladdin al-Afghani (d. 1897), Muhammad Abduh 1905), Rashid Rida 1935) and other reformers, it...