- Rustam Gorgani
Rustam Jurjani was a mid-16th century Persian physician who lived in
India . Rustam Jurjani was court physician of Khan Ahmad Jilan and the Sultan Nizam-Shah Burhan I (ruled 1508-1553) in the city of Ahmadnagar in the Deccan,India . His name indicates he was fromGorgan ,Golestan , Iran.He composed several medical treatises in Persian, the most extensive being his encyclopaedia of material medica which he compiled at the request of Sultan Nizam-Shah and named after him.
Of the latter The
National Library of Medicine has one of only two recorded copies.ee also
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List of Iranian scientists ources
*C.A. Storey, Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey. Volume II, Part 2: E.Medicine (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1971), p. 244
*Fateme Keshavarz, A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1986), pp 274-6 no 130.
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