title: Ahmed Hilmi Pasha (1839-1905): A remarkable Ottoman physician and medical translator.
abstract: Besides being a founding member of the Ottoman Medical Society (est. 1867) and general director of the Imperial Military and Civil medical schools in Istanbul, Dr Ahmed Hilmi Pasha offered a pathology course for the first time in the Ottoman Empire. He also translated various medical textbooks from French, and he paved the way for using Turkish in Ottoman medical education.
authors.affiliation: The Gevher Nesibe Institute of the History of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey.
authors.forename: Halil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tekiner
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D057214:Ottoman Empire; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*; D014175:Translating; D014421:Turkey
keywords: Medical translation; Ottoman Empire; Turkey; military physicians; pathology