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Date: Apr 7, 2008 - 08:50
PRESSTV has the article The History of medicine in ancient Persia on most of the important aspects of ancient medicine in Persia. The aspects are: - Avesta and other Zoroastriian texts. - Bathing with cold and warm water. - Non-pollution of the four elements. - Medicinal plants. - The right balance of the human body. - Three kinds of medicine practices. - Medical training. - Five categories of physicians: Health physician, medical examiner, surgeon, herbalist, psychiatrist. - Establishment of hospitals, a medical training system, a teaching hospital, and an international hospital. - Gundishapur, details. - The world's first medical conference in Ctesiphon in AD 550. - Medical scholars in governmental positions. - Persian medicine's influence on European medicine. - Important medical scholars in Persia.
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