HAMDARD : Unani pharmaceuticals company that goes back a century
I’ll never forget the first taste of Rooh Afza, Indian syrup that was […]
I’ll never forget the first taste of Rooh Afza, Indian syrup that was […]
The history of Himalaya began in India when India witnessed a deep rooted Western influence on their culture during the early twentieth century, making Mohammed Manal to perceive an urgent need to contemporaries the Ayurveda through modern scientific research.
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The Indian Medical mission team was the first to arrive in China at the port of Hankou, Wuhan. They were then sent to Yan’an where they were warmly welcomed by Mao Zedong, Zhu De and other top leaders of the Communist Party.
Dr. James Marion Sims, hailed as the “Father of Modern Gynecology,” casts a dark shadow with his unethical experiments on enslaved women.
Josef Mengele and his macabre twin experiments cast a long shadow on the history of science and ethics. The disturbing intersection of eugenics, Nazi ideology, and human experimentation in a chilling exploration of Auschwitz’s dark secrets.
He founded an academic institute with hospital, named Faiz- e-Kabir, in Lahore and became the Head of Department (HOD) of Tarjuma (tarjuma is an Arabic as well as an urdu word for “translation”) at Tibbia college, New Delhi.
Later on May 16, 1917 he joined as a professor of anatomy at the Tibbia college.
Hakeem Kabiruddin established Dar al Masih in New Delhi in 1921 and in the same year he published a Tibbi journal “Risala ul Masih” which continued over a span of seven years until 1928.
Also, in 1926, he designed syllabus for the research centre at the Tibbia college of New Delhi.
The door of the factory is always open and plays host to school children, exhibiting their benefits of herbal medication. They also allow pharmacy students to conduct their research and studies on their medicine.
Currently, the third generation of this prominent Unani Hakeem Mohammed Moizuddin Farooqui is running the company and are striving to maintain their reputed family business.
Dr Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari belonged to a very well-known family of Hakims. To recognise and acknowledge his surgical skills, the Charing Cross hospital entitled a ward in his name which is known as the “Ansari ward”.
Lady Evelyn Murray spent her later days travelling and preaching Islam. Her book “Pilgrimage to Mecca” is the oldest record of the trip to Hajj.
The border of the Ottoman Empire outstretched across three continents and extended over […]
The cultural variety existing in the Ottoman Empire created the Ottoman hospital. The […]
Hakim Ajmal Khan supplemented the Tibbia School by opening a Female Midwifery School and Hospital by getting it formally inaugurated by the wife of the Governor of Punjab, Lady Dane on 13 January 1909. It was a radical step taken by Hakim Saheb towards the professional courses in the direction of female education.
Dr. Boyd was much impressed and he congratulated Hakim Ajmal Khan Saheb on his correct diagnosis. He arranged a dinner in Hakim Saheb’s honor and introduced him to Mrs. Boyd as “one who had defeated him in the surgical duel.”
Rupa Bai Furdoonji was an active member of the First and Second Hyderabad Chloroform Commissions held in 1888 and 1891 respectively.
The undeniable fact that Fatima Ali Jinnah graduated in the year 1923 makes her the first female and a Muslim dentist of Undivided India followed by Tabitha Solomon who graduated five years after her.
Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is one of the two holiest cities for Muslims where millions of pilgrims from all over the world visit each year for either Hajj or Umrah
भारत में 19वीं सदी के दौरान दंत चिकित्सा में क्षेत्र में कोई काम […]
British writer and explorer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 – 1762). How One Daring Woman Introduced the Idea of Smallpox Inoculation to England
Dr. Dwarkanath Shantaram Kotnis is an only Indian still revered by the Chinese […]
He stayed in America for nearly eight years and studied at five different Universities. He started as a student of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and then devoted years to the study of Biology, Psychology, Economics and Sociology. He had several times interrupted his studies in order to earn enough to carry on at his University for a term or two. He had worked as a farm labourer for ten hours a day, as a packer in a jam factory, as a mechanic in an iron concern, as a waiter in a restaurant. He had tried his hand as a salesman. When, therefore, he returned to India in 1929, it was not as a raw student looking forward to a comfortable life, but as one who had seen life at close quarters and was fully determined to devote himself to public life.
The machine (EVM) could also eliminate booth-capturing as it would become possible for the Election Commission to introduce mobile polling stations to take the machines to the doorsteps of the people, especially the weaker sections.
Akbar Allahabadi was senior to Iqbal and he wrote a reply to Sare Jahan Se Achcha in form of another poem.
The idea of reservation to OBCs (Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs) came about in 1990 after the Mandal Commission recommendations were implemented. The reservation under article 341 defined only SC community and most of these Pasmanda castes don’t come under this identification.
“This is the Congress radio calling on 42.34 meters from somewhere in India,” spoke Usha Mehta after the Quit India Movement had been silenced by the Britishers.
Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan plays Usha Mehta in her movie Ae Watan Mere Watan.
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CAPTAIN LAKSHMI SAHGAL – Doctor by Job, Freedom Fighter by Will
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
In 1839, Samuel Morse, reputed as the telegraph pioneer, laid the first telegraph lines connecting Washington to Baltimore. In India, the same year, O’Shaughnessy completed 21 miles of a telegraph line wrapped around trees and vast stretches which included a river crossing of 4 miles as an experiment.
Democracy is an occidental idea. A Hindu cannot comprehend it as long as he is a Hindu. It is against his religious belief. The divisions of Varna are the basis of his religion. He cannot see without distress a Brahman or Kshtriya serving a Sudra. A Brahman may beg or even may die, yet he will never touch a dish from which a Sudra has partaken food.