Mkhitar Heratsi ( hy, Մխիթար Հերացի) was a 12th-century
Armenian
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physician. He was born in
Khoy
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(present-day northwestern
Iran
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). He was well versed in the
Persian
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,
Greek
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, and
Arabic
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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
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and
psychotherapy.
Legacy
A complete manuscript of the work was discovered in Constantinople in 1727 and acquired by the French National Library in Paris. The first complete translation of it was published in German by Ernst Seidel in 1908.
Yerevan State Medical University
The Mkhitar Heratsi Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU, hy, Երեվանի Մխիթար Հերացու անվան Պետական Բժշկական Համալսարան), is an Armenian medical university located in Yerevan, Armenia.
History
On ...
is named after Mkhitar Heratsi since 1989 Excelling students of
YSMU are awarded with "Mkhitar Heratsi
scholarship
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Scholars ...
".
References
External links
The website of Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi
12th-century physicians
Armenian scientists
Medieval Armenian physicians
People from Khoy
12th-century Armenian people
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