Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic Of Iran
مجله پزشکی جمهوری اسلامی ایران
Med J Islam Repub Iran
Medical Sciences
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NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN THE OLDEST MEDICAL TEXTBOOK IN PERSIAN WRITTEN AROUND 990 A.D.
General
General
Original Research
Original Research
Written around 990 A.D., Hidayat-MllIaallemill Fit Tibb (Student's
Guide ill Medicine) is the oldest general medical text known to have been
written in modern Persian. Little is known of the author other than the fact
that he was apparently a well experienced practicing physician by the name of
Abu Bah Rabi' bin Ahmad al-Akhawaini from Bukhara who claimed to bea
second generation student of Razi.
The neuropsychiatric sections of the book are of particular interest
because the author apparently had a personal interest in and reputation for
treating the insane. According to one of the manuscripts he was known as the
"Physician of the Insane" by his contemporaries.
Following the line of other Islamic medical writers, the author has
described the major neuropsychiatric disorders in the chapter dealing with
the "Diseases of the Head and Brain". These include Melancholia, Mania,
Epilepsy, Phrenitis, Lethargy, and Delerium. Hysteria is, however, described
among the diseases of the female reproductive system.
Both the terminology used and the authorities quoted betray the
author's schooling in and devotion to the Graeco-Roman medical traditions
adopted by early Islamic medical writers. He emerges as a hard-headed
organic physician dedicated to the humoral doctrines of mental illness.
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MOHARRERI
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From the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz , Islamic Republic of Iran.