title: Ibn-Sina's concept of cardiovascular diseases.
abstract: Ibn-Sina's description of cardiac diseases has been logically and scientifically presented perhaps for the first time in the history of medicine through a classified description of cardiac diseases. The terminology employed by him is basically Greco-Arabic. Ibn-Sina with his logical mind, classified drugs according to their potency of overcoming malhumours. He is the first physician to correlate the diseases of the heart with the temperament and psychic make up of an individual.
authors.affiliation: Hamdard Universitiy, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Said
mesh_terms: D018643:Arab World; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000266:history*; D018645:Greek World; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D009626:Terminology as Topic