Letter to the editor: Art in science: orthopaedics through philatelic material.

摘要

We read the article by Gursu et al. [6] with great interest. The authors mentioned that Avicenna was a Turkish physician. However, Avicenna was born in 980 AD in Afshaneh, near Bukhara (Uzbekistan). He died in 1037 AD, at the age of 58, and was buried in Hamadan, Iran [2, 3]. Avicenna never stepped out of the Persian borders, but his ideas, thoughts, teachings, manuscripts, and books circulated around the world through to the present day [1]. His works are written in Farsi and Arabic; Arabic was the official language of the Islamic territories during that time [2, 3]. Twenty-five countries located in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe used the vignette of Avicenna on their postage stamps to honor him [1].