Time to appreciate Avicenna’s knowledge of rabies

Azami, M and Ghomashlooyan, M and Aghakhani, N and Nikoonejad, A.R (2017) Time to appreciate Avicenna’s knowledge of rabies. Caspian J Intern Med, 8 (1). pp. 63-64.

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Abstract

The treatment of infectious diseases determines its history back to the research of many scientists, such as Persian scholars. The outstanding Persian scientist Avicenna (980-1037 AD) who is remembered for his contributions to the science of medicine was a master in curing many diseases like rabies. It is possible to analyze Avicenna’s opinions about rabies and his contributions to this problem of medicine through a study of his famous and great medical manuscript Al-Qanunphi-al-Tibb (The Canon of Medicine) which is one of the most important textbooks ever written on many medical issues such as rabies (1). Rabies is an acute, progressive, and fatal anthropozoonotic infection that affect the central nervous system and is estimated that approximately 100,000 people die from it each year, although the true number is much higher because of underreporting (2, 3). In Iranian traditional medicine, the word rabies means madness that is transmitted through a close contact with infected saliva via bites or scratches (4). Iranian physicians have written much and introduced their innovations in their works now and before (5). Avicenna suggested that the imbalance of the four humors causes different diseases like rabies. Based on his view, therapeutic interventions sh

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Rabies, Avicenna, Traditional medicine, Treatment
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email gholipour.s@umsu.ac.ir
Date Deposited: 14 Jul 2018 05:29
Last Modified: 03 Jun 2019 07:41
URI: http://eprints.umsu.ac.ir/id/eprint/4931

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