Ahmed Hilmi Pasha (1839-1905): A remarkable Ottoman physician and medical translator
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1The Gevher Nesibe Institute of the History of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.
Journal of Medical Biography
|September 17, 2016
Abstract:
Besides being a founding member of the Ottoman Medical Society (est. 1867) and general director of the Imperial Military and Civil medical schools in Istanbul, Dr Ahmed Hilmi Pasha offered a pathology course for the first time in the Ottoman Empire. He also translated various medical textbooks from French, and he paved the way for using Turkish in Ottoman medical education.
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