Abstract: Besides being a founding member of the Ottoman Medical Society (est. 1867) and general director of the Imperial Military and Civil medical schools in Istanbul, Dr Ahmed Hilmi Pasha offered a pathology course for the first time in the Ottoman Empire. He also translated various medical textbooks from French, and he paved the way for using Turkish in Ottoman medical education.
Keywords: Medical translation, military physicians, Ottoman Empire, pathology, Turkey
Cite: Tekiner, Halil. Ahmed Hilmi Pasha (1839–1905): A remarkable Ottoman physician and medical translator. J Med Biogr, published online: 15 September 2016, DOI: 10.1177/0967772016665569.
Link: http://jmb.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/09/15/0967772016665569.full
