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Relief Of Fevers
{{italic title ''Relief of Fevers'' ( hy, Ջերմանց Մխիթարություն, ''Jermants Mkhitarutiun'') is an encyclopedic study written by medieval Armenians, Armenian physician Mkhitar Heratsi in 1184, which has survived in full. The author uses the word ''fever'' to designate diseases that cause fever, such as malaria, yellow fever, and typhoid, which seem to have been common in the lowlands of Cilicia at the time. The fact that the book is written not in Classical Armenian (''grabar'') but in the vernacular is evidence that the author wanted to make it available to ordinary people. Heratsi speaks at lengths on the symptoms of various fevers; for example, he gives a clinical prognosis of three types of malaria, namely, quotidian (''miorya''), tertan (alternate days, ''yerekorya''), and quartan (three days apart, ''chorekorya''). The manuscript was discovered in 1727 in Constantinople and was purchased by the National Library of Paris. It appeared in print for the first ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenians
Armenians ( hy, հայեր, ''hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diaspora of around five million people of full or partial Armenian ancestry living outside modern Armenia. The largest Armenian populations today exist in Russia, the United States, France, Georgia, Iran, Germany, Ukraine, Lebanon, Brazil, and Syria. With the exceptions of Iran and the former Soviet states, the present-day Armenian diaspora was formed mainly as a result of the Armenian genocide. Richard G. Hovannisian, ''The Armenian people from ancient to modern times: the fifteenth century to the twentieth century'', Volume 2, p. 421, Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. Armenian is an Indo-European language. It has two mutually intelligible spoken and written forms: Eastern Armenian, today spoken mainly in Armenia, Artsakh, Iran, and the former Soviet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mkhitar Heratsi
Mkhitar Heratsi ( hy, Մխիթար Հերացի) was a 12th-century Armenian physician. He was born in Khoy (present-day northwestern Iran). He was well versed in the Persian, Greek, and Arabic languages.Agop Jack Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian"The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the sixth to the eighteenth century"Wayne State University Press, 2002. p 427 Heratsi, is often being called the father of Armenian medicine, was the author of the ''Relief of Fevers'', an encyclopedic work in which he discussed, among other subjects, surgery, diet and psychotherapy Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome pro .... Legacy A complete manuscript of the work was discovered in Constantinople in 1727 and acquired by the French National Library i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
