Mkhitar Heratsi (Armenian: Մխիթար Հերացի) was a 12th-century Armenian physician. He was born in Khoy (present-day northwestern Iran). He was well versed in the Persian, Greek, and Arabic languages.[1] Heratsi, is often being called the father of Armenian medicine,[2][3][4][5] was the author of the Relief of Fevers, an encyclopedic work in which he discussed, among other subjects, surgery, diet and psychotherapy.
A complete manuscript of the work was discovered in Constantinople in 1727 and acquired by the French National Library in Paris.[6] The first complete translation of it was published in German by Ernst Seidel in 1908. Yerevan State Medical University is named after Mkhitar Heratsi since 1989[7] Excelling students of YSMU are awarded with "Mkhitar Heratsi scholarship".[8]
