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Select sources for Graeco-Islamic and Persian Qajar and related
Medicine
In Progress 2006-7
URLs
http://www.ams.ac.ir/AIM/0474/0019.htm
Willem Floor's Public
Health In Qajar Iran (Washington, D.C.,: Mage Pub., 2004) contains a useful bibliography for
medicine in Qajar Persia and has been
selectively drawn on here.
Abdel Halim, M.A.S.
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ed. A. Grubb, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1993, pp.1-20. 5. ‘Early
kalam' in The
Afshar. Iraj.
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Mir,'՝ in Iraj Afshar ed., Namvareh-ye Doktor Mahmud Afshaī 12 vols.
Tehran: Mowqufeh-ye Doktor Mahmud Afshar, 1367/1988,
vol. 4. pp. 2169-82.
Anon (?)
- Friend of Iran, "Dawdson. "
The Doctor. G.E. Dodson of Iran . London: Highway Press, 1940.
Arjah, Akram, et. al. (eds.)
- Kitabshinasi-i Nusakh-i
Khaṭṭi-yi Pizishki-yi Iran. Tehran: Kitabkhanih-yi Milli, 1371/1992.
Afkhami,
Amir A.
- "Disease and Water Supply:
The Case of Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Iran," in J. Albert, Magnus
Bernhadsson, and Roger Kenna, eds., Transformations of Middle Eastern
Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons (New Haven: Bulletin
Series, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies no. 103,
1998).
- "Epidemics and the
Emergence of an International Sanitary Policy in Iran," in
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 191:1
(1999): 122-136.
- "Compromised Constitutions:
The Iranian Experience with the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic,"
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77:2 (Summer 2003): 367-392.
- "The Sick Men of
Persia: The Importance of Illness as a Factor in the Interpretation of
Modern Iranian Diplomatic History," Iranian Studies 36:3
(September 2003): 339-352.
Armin K.
- History of pathology. The
Ninth Seminar in Pathology, Shiraz, Iran; May 1994.
Baker, James E.
- "A few remarks on the
most prevalent Diseases and the Climate of the North of Persia,"
appendix to Herbert, Report on the present State of Persia and her
Mineral Resources, House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers, Accounts and
Papers 1886, vol. 67, pp. 323-26.
Bahadori M.
- Professor Armin, Biography.
Internal News. Iranian Medical Council. 1995; 18: 7-10.
Bahadori M.
- Kamaleddin Armin. In
memoriam. Iranian J Med Sci. 20 (1995) 20: 173.
Brittlebank, William.
- Persia During the Famine.
London: Basil Montague Pickering, 1873.
Browne, Edward G. (d.
1926).
- Arabian Medicine. London:
Cambridge University Press, 1921. Rep. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press,
1983.
*
- Tarikh-i tibb-i Islami.
Persian translation of Browne's `Arabian Medicine' by Mas`ud Rajabnia.
Tehran: Shirkat-i Intisharat-i `Ilmi wa Farhangi (= Scientific and
Cultural Publications Company) No. 60. , 1992 (180pp.).
*
Campbell, D.
- Arabian Medicine and its
Influence on the Middle Ages, Amsterdam: ADD., 1926.
Clarke, H.T.
- "Sketches on the State of
Medical Knowledge in Persia," London Medical and Surgical Journal 2
(1837), pp. 707-10.
Cloquet, Dr.
Louis-Andre-Ernest (b. Paris, 1818 d. Tehran, 1855). Worked at the
Persian Dar al-Funun.
"French anatomist and, from
1262/1846 to 1271/1855, French minister to the court at Tehran, serving
as personal physician to Muhammad Shah (1250-64/1834-48) and
Naṣir-al-Dīn Shāh Qajar (1264-1313/1848-96)" (from art in Enc. Iranica).
- Lutz Richter-Bernburg
art. `Cloquet...' in Enc-Ir.
- ADD
- ADD
Cochran, James P.
- "Treatment of the Sick and
Insane in Persia," The American Journal of Insanity 56 (1899), pp.
105-07.
- "Letter from Persia," Medical
Press of western New York 2 (1887), pp. 83-85.
Dār al-Funūn
("Polytechnic College")
See EIr. art.
An educational
academy founded in Tehran in 1268/1851 by Mirza Tāqī Farahānī
or Mirza
Tāqī Khan Amir Kabir (d. 1852). European and other professors trained
Persian students in western medicine and associated subjects. Various
professors including Polak, Schlimmer, Tholozan, Albo and others (see below)
as well as select students published medical textbooks in Persian (see Arjah,
1998; Ekhtiyah, Dar al-Funun, 314ff; Floor Appendix II pp. 240-243).
Cormick, Dr.
John (d. Mayamey [Persia] 1833) Irish physician to `Abbās Mīrzā
Assistant surgeon in the Madras
Medical Service in January 1800 then surgeon in February 1807. In
1225/1810 he went to Persia "as the second surgeon attached to Major General
John Malcolm's third mission" (Enc. Ir art),
- ‘Ta’lim-nâmeh yâ Risâlih-yi
âbilih kubi. Lithograph, Tabriz, 1245/1829-30.
- Risālah-i Ābilah-Kubi
("Treatise on vaccination"), written c. 1827 On inoculatin
for smallpox and the need for its widespread adoption . This volume is a
free Persian translation of a treatise
by Cormick by Mirza Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Sabūr. It had 10 chapters and a preface written by Cormick
and was among the first books printed in Qajar Persia.
-
- 'Cormick, John' art. by
Kamran Ekbal and Lutz Richter-Bernburg in Enc.Iranica:
-
http://www.iranica.com/newsite/search/index.isc
Cormick, Dr.
William (b. Tabriz 1820- d. Tabriz 1877) son of the above.
Educated in England he returned to
Persia in 1844 as second physician to the British mission in Tehran. Later he
became physician to the family of `Abbās Mīrzā (father of
Muhammad Shah Qajar) then Nāṣer-al-Dīn Mīrzā
[later Shah, d. 1896] who
became Governor of Azerbaijan. He accompanied him to Tabríz as his
personal physician on 15 March 1847. Amongst Bahā'īs he is famous for his
personal examination of the messianic claimant Sayyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi,
the Bāb in Tabriz in July 1848. .
Dashti, 'Ali,
- "Dar bareh-ye Doktor Yusef
Mir," in Iraj Afshar ed., Namvareh-ye Doktor Mahmud Afshar 12 vols.
Tehran: Mowqufeh-ye Doktor Mahmud Afshar, 1367/1988, vol.4, pp. 2177-79.
Dequevaullier, Dr.
- "Notice sur le docteur
Ernest Cloquet," in Notices sur le docteur Ernest Cloquet (Paris, 1856),
pp.8-23.
D'Vaume, Dr.
- "La lèpre dans le Kurdistan
Persan," Bulletin de la Société d'Anthropologie de Lyon 5 (1886), pp.
158-62.
Dols, Michael W.
- "The Origins of the Islamic
Hospital: Myth and Reality," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol.
62, 1987, pp. 367-390.
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History of Science 26 (1988), 415-427.
- Majnun: The Madman in Medieval
Islamic Society, ed. by Diana E. Immisch. Oxford: The Clarendon Press,
1992.
Dols, Michael W. and Adil S. Gamal.
- Medieval Islamic Medicine:
Ibn Ridwan's Treatise `On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt'.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Donaldson, Bess Allen.
- The Wild Rue. A Study of
Muhammadan Magic and Folklore in Iran. London: Luzac & Co, 1938.
Ebrahimnejad, Hormoz.
- "Introduction de la médecine
européenne en Iran au XIXe siècle," Sciences Sociales et Santé 16/4 (décembre
1998), pp. 69-96.
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Iran du XIX siècle," Generus 55 (1998), pp. 33-57.
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la médecine traditionelle persane: Mofarraq ol-Heyze va'l-Vaba de Mirza
Mohammad-Taqi Shirazi (ça. 1800-1873), Studia Ironica 27 (1988)pp.
83-107.
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Nineteenth-Century Persian Medicine: Intellectual and Institutional
Reforms," History of Science 38 (2000), pp. 171-78.
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Iran: from Relationship to Dissocation," History of Science 40 (2002).
pp. 91 -112.
-
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Elgood, Cyril.
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New York: 1934.
- A Medical History of Persia
and the Eastern Caliphate From the Earliest Times Until the Year A.D.
1932 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951.
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Medical History 12 (1968): 408-412.
- A Medical History of Persia
and the Eastern Caliphate from the Earliest Times to the Year A.D. 1932.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1951. Rep. with additions and
corrections by G. van Heusden, Amsterdam: Philo Press, 1979.
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The Practice of Medicine, Surgery, and Gynaecology in Persia between
1500 A.D. and 1750 A.D. London: Luzac & Co., 1970.
*
Eqbal. Yaghma'i.
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Khan Hakim al-Dowleh," Amuzesh va Parvaresh 42 ( 1351 /1972). pp.
358-64.
-
-
Ferrier, J-P.
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23-24.

Floor, Willem, M.
-
"Sécurité, Circulation et Hygiene
dans les rues de Teheran a l'époque Qajar," in: Adle, Charyar et
Hourcade, Bernard eds. Téhéran Capitale bicentenaire, Institut Français
de Recherche en Iran, 1992 (Bibliothèque iranienne, vol. 37), pp.
173-198.
-
"Bloodletting," EIr.
vol. : ADD.
-
`Bathhouses'
EIr.
vol. : ADD.
-
"The Art of Smoking in Iran and Other Uses of
Tobacco," Iranian Studies 35:1-3 (2002), 47-86.
-
-
Public
Health In Qajar Iran. Washington, D.C.,: Mage Pub., 2004 ISBN = 0934211-08-6
(270pp.). Contains a very useful bibliography for Qajar Persia,
selectively replicated here.
-
Garrison, F.H.
G.D (??)
Gilmour. John.
Good, Byron J.
-
"The Professionalization of Medicine in a Provincial
Iranian Town," in Madeleine Leiniger, ed., Transcultural Health Issues
and Conditions (Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1976), pp. 51-65.
-
"The Heart of What's the Matter: The Semantics of Illness
in Iran," in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 1:1 (1977).
-
"The Transformation of Health Care in Modern Iranian
History," in Michael E. Bonine and Nikki R. Keddie, eds., Modern Iran:
The Dialectics of Continuity and Change (Albany: State University of New
York Press, 1981), 59-82.
-
"The Transformation of Health Care in Modern Iranian
History," in Michael E. Bonine and Nikki Keddie eds. Modern Iran, ne
Dialectics of Continuity and Change (Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1981) 59-82.
Hafizi, M. A.
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Dentistry, Hospitals, and Affiliated Schools of University of Tehran.
Tehran: University Press; 1953.
Hedayaty , J.
- The History of Contemporary
Medicine in Iran. Tehran: Iran University of Medical Sciences. 2000.
Häntzsche, J.C.
-
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für Erdkunde zu Berlin 1869, 429-49.
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"Lepra in Persien," Virchows Archiv 27 (1863), 180-83.
-
Physikalisch-medicinische Skizze von Rescht in Persien, Virchows Archiv
15
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Ibn al-Jazzār, Abū Ja‘far Ahmad
ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Khālid (d. 369/979).
ابو جعفر احمد ابن ابراهيم
ابن ابى خالد ابن الجزار
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Forgetfulness and its Treatment, Gerrit Bos. ADD.
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Ibn Juljul.
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-
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Twelver
Imams on Medicine
Batool Ispahany (trans.) & Andrew J. Newman (Ed.),
-
Islamic Medical Wisdom,
The Tibb al-A'imma* ("Medicine of the Imams") London: The Muhammadi Trust
1991)
-
This volume is a collection of statements of certain
of the twelver Imams compiled by Abu
`Atab `Abd Allah and al-Husayn, the sons of Bistam b. Sabur; Bistam was a
companion of the sixth Imam Abu Abd Allah Ja`far b. Muhammad al-Muhamm
Sādiq (d. 148/765) and the seventh Imam Abu al-Ḥasan Musa ibn Ja`far al-Kāẓim
(d. 183/799) (cf. al-Dhari`a 15:139-140). In the preface to this work
Newman writes,
"There is no dearth of
Twelver Shi`i medical texts. Agha Buzurg al-Tehrani (d. 1389/1970) in
his massive bibliography of Twelver texts [see above] devoted several
pages to listing texts on medicine completed from the earliest years
following the disappearance of the Twelfth Imam up to the last century"
(for further details see ibid p. xxxiv ff).
A great many statements
are attributed to the Twelver Imams that, in one way or another, have to
do with medical matters or with bodily health. To the eighth Imam `Ali
al-Rida' (c.768-818 CE) is attributed al-Risala al-dhahabiya / al-mudhahhaba
fi'-tibb ("The Golden Treatise..") a treatise on medical cures and good
health written for and at the request of the `Abbasid Caliph al-Mansur
(text in Majlisi, Bihar al-anwar (2nd ed) LXII: 308-328). A number of
commentaries have been written on this Arabic treatise some of
which have been translated into Persian and Urdu (Madelung, Ali al-Reza,
EIr. 2:877-8). See also
Muhammad `Ali al-Baqir,
al-Imam `Ali al-Riḍā' wa risalat fi al-tibb al-nabawi, al-risala al-dhahabiya,
awwal risala fi al-tibb al-nabawī, (Beirut: Dar al-manahil, 1412/1991).
-
This volume
commences with material highlighting the glories of the "people of
the House of the Prophet" (Pt.I ,11-68) followed by an
hagiographical biography of `Ali al-Rida' (Pt.II., 69-110); the text
of Imam Rida's `Golden Treatise; (Pt .III., 111-126) and two further
sections; a prolegomenon to the understanding of ancient medical
books and books of the medicine of the Prophet (Pt .IV, 27-137) the
Risala dhahabiya and an exposition and glosses on some of its terms
(Pt. V 139-183).
Agha Buzurg al-Tihrani,
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Perho, Irmeli.
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Ḥakīm Pūlāk Namsavī
(1818–1891).
Austrian physician to
Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh (d. 1896)
and instructor at the Dar
al-Funun
See
http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/MELANotes77/GacekPersian.pdf
(see p.5).
"Additionally, of
special interest here are compositions by Dr. Jakob Eduard Polak (Ḥakīm
Pūlāk Namsavī), an Austrian physician, who practiced medicine at the
court of Shāh Nāṣir al-Dīn Qājār between 1851 and 1860, and by Dr.
Johann L. Schlimmer (Hakīm Shalīm Flamankī), a Dutchman. Both Polak and
Schlimmer taught at the Dār al-Funūn College in Tehran. The Osler
collection includes Polak’s Risālah dar bayān-i `ilm-i jarrāḥī and two
copies of Schlimmer’s Jalāl al-`uyūn. To Schlimmer are also attributed
two other compositions: Miftāḥ al-khavāṣṣ and Qavā`id al-amrāz..." (Adam
Gacek, Persian Manuscripts in McGill University Libraries, URL above, p.
5.).
Dr. Polak was an Austrian medical
teacher at the Persian Dar al-Fonun where he succeeded Dr. Ernest
Cloquet (1818–1855).
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Schlimmer, Dr. Johann Louis
= Hakīm Shalīm Flamankī (1819-1881).
A Dutchman who practised medicine
at the court of Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh (d. 1896) between 1851 and 1860 and
taught at the Dār al-Funūn (cf. on Polak above).
"Additionally, of
special interest here are compositions by Dr. Jakob Eduard Polak (Ḥakīm
Pūlāk Namsavī), an Austrian physician, who practiced medicine at the
court of Shāh Nāṣir al-Dīn Qājār between 1851 and 1860, and by Dr.
Johann L. Schlimmer (Hakīm Shalīm Flamankī), a Dutchman. Both Polak and
Schlimmer taught at the Dār al-Funūn College in Tehran. The Osler
collection includes Polak’s Risālah dar bayān-i `ilm-i jarrāḥī and two
copies of Schlimmer’s Jalāl al-`uyūn. To Schlimmer are also attributed
two other compositions: Miftāḥ al-khavāṣṣ and Qavā`id al-amrāz..." (Adam
Gaeck, Persian Manuscripts in McGill University Libraries, URL p.5 : see
URL above at Polak).
http://www.ams.ac.ir/AIM/0691/0021.htm
"[Schlimmer] was born in
1819 and graduated from the Medical School of Leiden in Holland. After
coming to Iran in 1849, he was first sent to Talesh. Then, he worked in
Rasht, Gilan Province, in the North of Iran, where he was engaged in the
treatment of patients with leprosy for a few years. Then, in 1855, he became
the vicegerent of Dr. Jacob Eduard Polak (1818 – 1891) at Dar al-Fonun. Dr.
Polak was a famous Austrian medical teacher at Dar al-Fonun. After Dr.
Ernest Cloquet (1818 –1855), the former French king special physician, has
passed away, Dr. Polak was assigned for the position. So, Dr. Schlimmer
joined the teaching staff at Dar al-Fonun in 1855 and worked there until
1864. Initially, he taught most of his classes and wrote course materials in
French. Later on, Dr. Schlimmer learned Persian language to more effectively
teach the students. He was an efficient physician and a superb teacher. He
also studied endemic diseases such as leprosy and cholera in Iran, and was
responsible for the clinical training of medical students at the
“Marizkhaneh-ye-Dowlati” (the State Hospital) which was founded in 1852"
(from the URL above).
Schlimer Bibliography adapted from URL and Floor 2004 App. II pp. 240-3 :
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Tehran, 1874
- Terminologie Medico-Pharmaceutic
et Anthropologique. Tehran, Iran: Tehran University Press; 1951: 69.
- Terminologie Médico-Pharmaceutique: Française... Tehran: Daneshgah, 1970.
- Zinat al-Abdan ("On Skin
Diseases"), 1279 /1862;
- Shafaiyeh ("On Remedies"),
1284/1867;
- Loghat-namih (Persian-French
Medical Dictionary), 1291/1874;
- Qavā'id al-Amrāḍ ("Rules of
Diseases, on Pathology"), 1292/1875;
- Miftāḥ al-khavāṣṣ ("On
Pharmacology"), n.d.
- Jalāl al-`uyūn
("Ophthalmology") n.d. two mss. in Canada see Gacek Cat. p.5.
- Adviyeh and Nuskheha (Drugs
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