Al-Kashkari ( ar, الكسكري; 322 in
AH/c. 934 CE in
Kashkar – 414 AH/1023 CE in
Fushanj) was a hospital physician from
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
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In diagnosing mental disorder, al-Kashkari used criteria such the temperament of the patient as indicators to ascertain the nature of the mental disorder: sluggishness and forgetfulness point to a cold temperament, which requires a different treatment from a warm one, which is revealed through insomnia.
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930s births
1023 deaths
10th-century physicians
10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
Physicians of the medieval Islamic world
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