Buy this book on-line Cyril Elgood : A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate. From the Earliest Times Until the Year A.D. 1932
The University Press, Cambridge, 1951
Original cloth boards with paper dust jacket, title in black and red.
, Plates and pages are clean and crisp, dust jacket is frayed at the top but otherwise a fine copy of this important work on the history of Persian medicine. , 4to (153mm x 232mm), P. Blank, Half Title, Intro, frontis, title, preface (v-x), Contents (xi-xii), 1-596, Index 597-617, blank., Illustrated with 5 black and white plates.
Cyril Lloyd Elgood M.D., F.R.C.P., honorary physician to the king of Persia (Shah)[1] (1893-1970) commonly referred to as Cyril Elgood[2][1] was a British physician (graduate of St. Bartholomew's Hospital) and historian of medicine in Persia/Iran[1][3], best remembered for his breakthrough studies on the history of medical and educational advances of Persia during the period of 1500s to mid 18th century. He was also known for his work at Her Britannic Majesty's embassy in Tehran[1], his service in the British army in British India starting in 1914[3], and his active role in quarantine facilitation during infectious disease outbreaks in south-west Iran.[3][4]
Elgood took great interest in Persian medicine, and its history and produced several publications on the topic. He also practiced medicine in Persia, as well as back home in Britain where he was a general practitioner in Wareham, Dorset as well as a consultant to two major English hospitals.[3] Elgood was also a cosmopolitan man travelling to most of the Persian Gulf states adding such countries as Sudan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia to the list of places he had visited where he had transiently practiced medicine and lecturing.
Elgood's major achievement was that he managed to combine the commonly delved into history of Post-Islamic Persia as cited through works of such Arabophone Persians such as Ali Abbas Majusi, Razi, and Avicenna, with the less commonly studied history fo medicine in Pre-Islamic Persia.[3] In what are perhaps his best recognized works, titled Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the Earliest Times Until 1932[5], and his Persian Medicine published in Clio Medica series[1], Elgood traces early concepts of Zoroastrianhygiene, Sassanid influences in Medicine, all the way to Post-Islamic writings of Avicenna, and his contemporaries.[1] Elgood also outlines the debt that Western medicine owes to the Persian physicians and their contributions.[6]
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