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Rhazes and an Early Case With Possible Hypertensive or Reversible Encephalopathy
Mohammad E Zohalinezhad1,2, Mohammad M Zarshenas3,4
1a Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine , Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Shiraz , Iran.
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
|October 8, 2015
Abstract:
In one of Rhazes' medical treatises, Tales and Stories of Patients, descriptions, medical manifestations, and treatment approaches of 34 patients were mentioned. Among those, an epileptic patient with a florid face and congested veins was cured by performing venesection on his saphenous and basilic veins. Signs and symptoms of the case might correspond to hypertensive or reversible encephalopathy.