Doctor Saeed Khan, Kurdistan myth of Medical Ethics in Qajar and First Pahlavi period (Physiologist and ophthalmologist)

Documentation and medical history of the Qajar period shows that medical practice in Qajar period, especially the first half, compared with its earlier centuries and did not progress. In addition in this period all diseases and drugs were divided in twofold (hot and cold), and patients were treated on the basis of this division. So, for those who wish to study in modern medical science, travelling abroad and studying in European countries were necessary. Saeed Khan Kurdistani is one of the examples of these people who got the basic introduction with medicine and medical science through contacting with Christian missionaries during 9 years. As a result, in three different time periods, he traveled to England to study and complete his medical knowledge, and under the supervision of English physicians, he had been specialized in anatomy, physiology, typology, microbiology, tropical medicine and ophthalmology and his name was recorded as one of the specialists and moral physicians in medical history. In this paper, through descriptive method and resources of library and Saeed Khan’s manuscripts, we try to investigate Saeed Khan Kurdistan medical life, his specialized courses in Medical field and his effects.