| We have read with great interest the article “The Story of the Silent Killer, A History of Hypertension: Its Discovery,
Diagnosis, Treatment, and Debate” . However, the authors briefly describe the history of medicine in the 1400-year decline
of darkness with a brief description of the Ebers Papyrus and then Hippocrates and Galen. However, it should be said
that in the Middle Ages, prominent Iranian physicians such as Razi (925/854 AD) and Ibn Sina (1037 AD 980) wrote valuable
and significant works whose prominent place in the history of medicine is undeniable. However, the authors have
ignored it in their study. Iranian medical books in the Middle Ages do not know the meaning of “hypertension,” But Razi in the definition of Imtila disease (fullness or accumulation in the body) enumerates the symptoms that are similar to the symptoms of hypertension. Razi believes that the increase in blood volume leads to stretching and dilation of blood vessels and the heaviness of the head, nosebleeds, and hemoptysis (bloody sputum) are its symptoms. |