The institute for Research on the History of Children's Literature in Iran has recently launched a new project called " Study of Childhood " comprising research on all aspects of children's lives throughout history. In line with the research on medical issues related to children and children's hygiene during the Qajar period, the researchers from the Institute visited The Iranian National Museum of History of Medicine.
The Museum was opened in 2001 in Tehran and has a valuable collection of documents, books , manuscripts and photographs related to prominent physicians as well as medical tools from different historical periods. Also there are interesting exhibitions of items such as a baby's skeleton dated back to the first millennium B.C which was found Shahr Sookteh (The burnt city), in the south eastern province of Sistan va Baluchestan, and the skull of a thirteen year old girl who was operated on around 4850 years ago and the skull of a thirteen year old girl who was operated on around 4850 years ago . In the Museum there is a special section on medical tools belonging to Dr. Mohammad Gharib (1909-1974) the father of children's medicine in Iran.
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