The Coronavirus (COVID-19) preventive measures proposed by the Fathers of Medicine Hippocrates of Kos (460–370 BC), Ibn Sina (980–1037) and Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385–1468)

Abstract

Recently, as the death toll from the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic increases, more governments around the world have decided to lock down their countries to decrease propagation rate of infection and prevent their health systems from overwhelming. National health systems equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment and armies of medical personnel with the highest knowledge of medicine are helpless against the invisible enemy whose deadly effects were first seen in China. For the Western world, now the epicenter of contagion, the virus offered a serious test for health systems and national solidarity