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Psychiatric services in Egypt – an update

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ramy Daoud ,
Sherif Atallah  and
Nasser Loza
Ramy Daoud
Affiliation:
Behman Hospital, Cairo
Sherif Atallah
Affiliation:
Behman Hospital, Cairo
Nasser Loza
Affiliation:
Behman Hospital, 32 Marsad Street, Cairo 11421, Egypt, email nloza@behman.com
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For over a thousand years, the Hippocratic system of medicine prevailed in Europe. It went into oblivion during the Dark Ages, when there was a reversion to the demoniacal theories of mental illness. Hippocrates’ works survived, however, in the library at Alexandria, where they were translated into Arabic. These and other classical works were retranslated into Latin and Greek from the 12th century on, ushering in the Renaissance.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , October 2003 , pp. 12 - 14
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