| This article reviews and inquires about skin diseases over the centuries. This is a comprehensive study with very
detailed and useful tips in which the authors have reviewed various works. However, it also has an important drawback as
the authors did not refer to the medical tradition of skin diseases in medieval Islamic countries. The medieval medicine
in the Islamic world, which began with the movement to translate Greek, Iranian, and Indian works, could flourish by the arrival of individuals such as Rhazes, Haly Abbas and Avicenna. Each of the important physicians of the era allocated
chapter(s) of their works to types, causes, symptoms, and treatment of skin, hair, and nail diseases, including
psoriasis, warts, vitiligo, smallpox, blemishes, and leprosy. Avicenna’s The Canon of Medicine and Rhazes’s Al-Hawi were
examples of many works with detailed discussions in separate chapters. For instance, Avicenna allocated separate
chapters of the Canon of Medicine to skin diseases, hair diseases, and skin color diseases. Furthermore, he considered
a chapter in this book for makeup in which he described nail diseases and issues relating to makeup and beauty, as well
as fitness in detail. |