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Safavid Medicine: How Persian Hospitals Healed an Empire
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the medical world of Safavid Persia, from the great hospital of Isfahan—the Dar al-Shafa—to the physicians who blended Galenic humoral theory with Persian herbal traditions. They discuss influential figures like Hakim Muhammad, author of the comprehensive medical text Tuhfat al-Mu'minin, and the royal physician Hakim Shamsa Gilani. The conversation covers the training of doctors in madrasas, the role of charitable waqf endowments in funding hospitals, and how the Safavids dealt with outbreaks of plague and cholera. Lucas recounts the story of the French…
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