Occupational Medicine in Schools for Pupils and Teachers.

PASHAYAN KHAN, Garabed.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 141034

Alexandria, Egypt: Published by the author, 1906.

Rare work on occupational medicine self-published by Armenian physician and scholar Garabed Pashayan Khan. Octavo, original half cloth over paper-covered boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated, text in Armenian. This rare self-published text is primarily concerned with the health and wellbeing of students and teachers in academic buildings, addressing hygiene, posture, study habits, transmissible and contagious diseases, remedies and cures. In very good condition. Extremely uncommon with no holdings located by OCLC.

After completing his medical training in Constantinople, Armenian physician Garabed Pashayan Khan started practicing medicine in Balu and Malatia. In 1890 he was arrested for the support of Armenian fedayee groups, was sentenced to death but then released after the mediation of the British consul's family. In 1895 he moved to Iran and became the Persian Shah's doctor. For his efforts he was awarded with the Khan title. In 1903-1906 Pashayan lived in Alexandria, Egypt, where he founded an Armenian school and a printing house. In 1908 after the Young Turk revolution he returned to Constantinople and was elected as a member of Ottoman parliament. In 1915 he was arrested among the other Armenian intellectuals and was sent to Ayash, where he was tortured and killed.