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Abstract
This article reviews the manner in which Persian culture viewed the problem of epilepsy. Beginning with the Avesta, the earliest Persian text on health and sickness, the medical literature on treatments of epilepsy common in Iran are reviewed. The article also explores popular Persian concepts that try to explain the causes of the morbus sacer.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID： 1464264 DOI： 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1992.tb01759.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Epilepsia ISSN： 0013-9580 Impact factor: 5.864