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THE ORIGIN OF THE CONCEPT OF NEUROPATHIC PAIN IN EARLY MEDIEVAL PERSIA (9TH-12TH CENTURY CE)
Mojtaba Heydari
; Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Mesbah Shams
; Endocrine and Metabolism Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Mohammad Hashem Hashempur
; Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran
Behnam Dalfardi
; Research Office for the History of Persian Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Afshin Borhani-Haghighi
; Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Sažetak
Neuropathic pain is supposed to be a post-renaissance described medical entity. Although it is often believed that John Fothergill (1712-1780) provided the first description of this condition in 1773, a review of the medieval Persian medical writings will show the fact that neuropathic pain was a medieval-originated concept. “Auojae Asab” [Nerve-originated Pain]was used as a medical term in medieval Persian medical literature for pain syndromes which
etiologically originated from nerves. Physicians like Rhazes (d. 925 CE), Haly Abbas (d. 982 CE), Avicenna (d. 1037 CE), and Jorjani (d. 1137 CE) have discussed multiple aspects of nerve-originated pain including its classification, etiology, differentiating characteristics, different qualities, and pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments. Recognizing medieval scholars’ views on nerve-originated pain can lighten old historical origins of this
concept.
Ključne riječi
Iranian Traditional Medicine; Medieval History; Neuralgia; Neuropathic Pain; Persian Medicine; Avicenna; Jorjani; Rhazes
Hrčak ID:
152933
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2015.
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