Father of Armenian medicine and author of the Relief of Fevers
Mkhitar Heratsi was a 12th-century Armenian physician. He was born in Khoy (present-day northwestern Iran). He was well versed in the Persian, Greek, and Arabic languages. Heratsi, is often being called the father of Armenian medicine, was the author of the Relief of Fevers, an encyclopedic work in which he discussed, among other subjects, surgery, diet and psychotherapy.
Legacy
A complete manuscript of the work was discovered in Constantinople in 1727 and acquired by the French National Library in Paris. The first complete translation of it was published in German by Ernst Seidel in 1908. Yerevan State Medical University is named after Mkhitar Heratsi since 1989 Excelling students of YSMU are awarded with « Mkhitar Heratsi scholarship ».
