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BORZOUYEH, AN ANCIENT PERSIAN PHYSICIAN WHO FIRST REPORTED UTERINE CONTRACTIONS IN NORMAL VAGINAL DELIVERY
Arman Zargaran
; Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center and Department of Phytopharmaceuticals (Traditional Pharmacy), School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Alireza Mehdizadeh
; Research Office for the History of Persian Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Hassan Yarmohammadi
; Department of History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Hossein Kiani
; Department of Arabic Literature and Language, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Abdolali Mohagheghzadeh
; Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center and Department of Phytopharmaceuticals (Traditional Pharmacy), School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Sažetak
During the final hours of pregnancy, uterine contractions cause the foetus to move through the birth canal and leave the mother’s body. Haly Abbas (died 982-994 CE), is believed to be the first writer to explain the role of these contractions. However, this concept had in fact been described in the text titled Bab-e-Borzouyeh, written four centuries earlier by the physician Borzouyeh (Perzoes in Latin) as a prologue to his translation of the Indian collection of fables known as the Panchatantra. Because Haly Abbas probably had access to ancient Persian medical texts,
Ključne riječi
History of medicine; ancient era; Persian medicine; Borzouyeh; obstetric, uterine contractions
Hrčak ID:
152934
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Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2015.
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