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Pulse and Gap in Greek Medicine History
Kamran Mahlooji1, Mahsima Abdoli2
1Department of History of Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract:
We read and enjoyed the paper entitled "Avicenna and Tremor of the Heart" by Ghahramani et al., which expressed the viewpoints of Avicenna, which was expressed unique subjects. But there are some contradictions with our findings which list as below: Dhanvantari was not a physician, but was of the Hindu gods; nadi in Sanskrit is derived from the word ney, referring to hollow paths. On the other hand, Nadi-ha is an equivalent of the pulse, but Nadi has been popular for several hundreds of years; Accordingly, there is no trace of a book written by Dhanvantari in the books translated from Hindi to Arabic during the translation movement, Rafus of Ephesus (70-110 A.D.) had the earliest writing about pulse, and Galen (129-210 A.D.) was not the first to provide a book concerning the pulse. Also, there was a severe breakdown in Greek medicine concerning the concept of the pulse, according to absence of pulse concept in Hippocrates works.
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