Early Description of Heredity Traits by Ali ibn Rabban al-Tabari

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Authors

1 Department of History of Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

2 Persian Medicine Network (PMN), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

3 Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

4 Department of Persian Medicine, School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Highlights

Sobhan Ghezloo (Google Scholar)
Babak Daneshfard (Google Scholar)
Ebrahim Khadem (Google Scholar)


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