INSTITUT PASTEUR (PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN), the Institute for bacteriology and vaccination founded by the Persian government in 1921 as…

INFLUENZA (flu, grippe), a common contagious infection of the upper-respiratory system caused by the Orthomyxovirus class of viruses. Members of…

HUMORALISM (ṭebb-e jālinusi/ṭebb-e yunāni), or Galenism, a medical philosophy that considers illness as an imbalance in the body’s four elemental…

HEALTH IN PERSIA iii. QAJAR PERIOD It was under the Qajars that a centralized public health policy was introduced for…