Medical Developments in India from the Perspective of Iranian Tourists (13th Century AH/ 19 AD)
Tārīkh-i pizishkī i.e., Medical History,
Vol. 15 No. 48 (1402),
4 July 2023
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Page 1-12
https://doi.org/10.22037/mhj.v15i48.38602
Abstract
Background and Aim: In this article, using the reports of some Iranian thoughtful that were present in India at the beginning of the 19th century, we get to know some medical developments in India under the influence of English physicians. Due to the inappropriate state of medicine in the Qajar period, where there was no more information about the scientific methods of Sinai medicine and medical treatment had become popularized, these authors tried to help improve medical knowledge in Iran by describing some aspects of modern medicine.
Methods: The contents that several Iranian writers have recorded in their travelogues and reports about aspects of change and evolution in Indian medicine in the 19th century provided the basis for writing this article. In general, this article is written in a descriptive, analytical way using library resources.
Ethical Considerations: In this study criteria concerned with moral principles as confidentiality, personal satisfaction and freedom of participants in cooperation or non-cooperation during the study process have been observed.
Results: A report on how to prevent smallpox by using inoculation method in India at the beginning of the 19th century, the effect of the government's support of the medical discoveries in the 19th century on the encouragement of scientists, the quality of physician interaction with the patient, the factors affecting the improvement of medical practice in the 19th century and weakening the "Unani Teb" under the influence of modern western medicine in India are among the findings of this research.
Conclusion: The Iranians who visited India at the beginning of the 19th century, tried by recounting the European medical advances that were more or less used in the subcontinent, including the success in smallpox prevention, the use of new drugs, the government's supervision of doctors' work…, to familiarize the Iranian society with modern medicine. Undoubtedly, these reports were effective in trending towards modern medicine and revising traditional treatment methods in Iran in the 13th A.H century.
- Medical Developments
- India
- Tourists
- Iran
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