Haly Abbas or Masoudi, one of the three greatest physicians of the 10th Century, who wrote number of treatises and books including ‘Complete Book of the Medical Art’, was born in 910 in Ahvaz, Persia.
Haly Abbas, his Latinized name while the Arabic one is Ali ibn al-’Abbas al-Majusi, served as a court physician to Adud ad- Dawlah, an emir of the Buyid dynasty in Iran and Iraq.
The scholar from the Islamic Golden Age Masoudi described so elaborately the physiological and psychological aspects of a patient in his well accepted book Kitab Kamil as- Sina at Tibbiyya or Complete Book of the Medical Art that he is often called the pioneer of psychophysiology and psychosomatic medicine. In fact, the same book has got several names such as The Complete Art of Medicine, Royal Book, al Maliki and so on.
His book the Maliki which contains 20 discourses is divided into two major parts. The first part deals with theory while the second with the practice of medicine. The Complete Book of the Medical Art was used as the main source of surgical books in the world.
It was Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi who discussed first time in the world various mental disorders, including memory loss, hot and cold meningitis, vertigo epilepsy, love sickness, sleeping sickness, hypochondriasis, coma, and hemiplegia.
The writer of such excellent and compact medical encyclopedia also known The Royal Book described scientifically the neuroanatomy, neurobiology and neurophysiology of the brain. The 10th century Muslim scholar Masoudi died in 994 AD.
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