A pioneer from the Islamic Golden Age: Haly Abbas and spinal traumas in his principal work, The Royal Book

Belen D., Aciduman A.

JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY-SPINE, cilt.5, sa.4, ss.381-383, 2006 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 5 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2006
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3171/spi.2006.5.4.381
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY-SPINE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.381-383
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Haly Abbas, spinal disorder, spinal trauma, The Royal Book, neurosurgical history, SURGERY
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Spinal diseases have attracted medical scientists throughout the history of medicine, probably because they are relatively easy to diagnose and fairly simple to treat. Physicians who made great progress in medicine during the glorious Islamic civilizations also enthusiastically dealt with spine-related problems. More than a thousand years ago Persia was a cradle of medical learning, and Islamic medicine and other sciences spread westward from that center. A leading figure during this period was Haly Abbas, who created an excellent and compact medical encyclopedia, The Royal Book. Sadly, this book has rarely been cited in the literature. The subject of the present vignette is Abbas' work regarding spinal trauma.