"The life of an Ottoman chief physician
GÜL DEMİR and NIKI GAMM
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News
The chief physician to the Ottoman palace received a substantial reward for enduring the stress of keeping the reigning sultan alive and well while spending his time attending to the ruler at all times
Medicine in the Islamic world was absorbed from doctors of Christian or Jewish backgrounds. Teaching was done in hospitals or even in homes since the tradition in Muslim culture was often for fathers to pass on their knowledge to their sons"
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