Cyril Elgood

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Cyril Lloyd Elgood

infectious disease outbreaks in south-west Iran.[3][4]

Elgood took great interest in Persian medicine, and its history and produced several publications on the topic. He also practiced medicine in Persia, as well as back home in Britain where he was a general practitioner in Wareham, Dorset as well as a consultant to two major English hospitals.[3] Elgood was also a cosmopolitan man travelling to most of the Persian Gulf states adding such countries as Sudan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia to the list of places he had visited where he had transiently practiced medicine and lecturing.

Historical work

Elgood's major achievement was that he managed to combine the commonly delved into history of Post-Islamic Persia as cited through works of such Arabophone

Sassanid influences in Medicine, all the way to Post-Islamic writings of Avicenna, and his contemporaries.[1] Elgood also outlines the debt that Western medicine owes to the Persian physicians and their contributions.[6]

Elgood also focuses on development of Medicine in

Abdul-Qadir Gilani and the invention of the so-called hubble-bubble or hookah
.

Elgood's areas of interest were majorly

gynecological, and general medicine related. In his Safavid surgery[1][7] he makes a detailed description of the medical procedures used in Safavid Persia with attention to minor details and his emphasis on anatomy and the steps involved in each procedure, perhaps owing to his medical background as well as his historical interests.[1]
Elgood's descriptions of the
anaesthetic procedures give insight into great advances made in medicine under Islam in Persia despite the falsely adapted four humor theory of the Greco-Romans and the prohibition of dissections by the Islamic law.[3]

Elgood is also known, although less so, (due to his diminished dwelling on the topic

Gondishapur in today's province of Ahvaz.[3][8]

Gynecology

Elgood also had an interest in

small pox; Persia, according to Elgood, was at the peak of its performance medically despite having to deal with newly arriving ailments and evolving existing ones.[3]

Translations

Elgood also produced various translations including Prophetic medicine including his various books on ancient Iranian medicine.[3] This was another dimension to his writing that also incorporated when apt, folk lore, anecdotes and customs.[3] Elgood was also well respected within the historical and medical community as is indicated by this ending quote from Sami K. Hamarneh, P.H.D. who states:[1]

The late Dr. Cyril Elgood left a legacy of writings on the history of medicine in Muslim lands, especially in Persia (Iran)...The recent death of Cyril Elgood was indeed a loss to the many who admired his thorough and intelligent evaluation of Persian medicine, its history and contributions to medical progress.

Sources

  1. ^
    PMC 1749426
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  2. PMC 1034719
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  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l F. R. C. Bagley (December 1998). "Eglood, Cyril Lloyd". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
  4. ISBN 9004127747
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  5. ISBN 9781108015882
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  6. ^ Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain) (1941). "Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 34, Issues 7–12". Royal Society of Medicine: 41. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ Elgood, Cyril Lloyd (1966). Safavid surgery. Symposium Publications Division, Pergamon Press.
  8. S2CID 24866781. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 6 December 2015.
  9. ISBN 9780718901400
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  10. ISBN 0300069340
    . french pox.
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