The center for the revival of Arab scientific heritage at the University of Baghdad has organized a symposium entitled (Scientific professions in heritage) with the participation of several professors and researchers interested in this topic. This event witnessed the presentation of many research papers on the profession of writing in the ancient Iraqi schools which were initially attached to temples and were closer or more like religious institutions that train priests and people who join the functions of clerks for the service of temples and palaces, especially at the beginning of the second millennium BC.
Then a lecture on pharmacy in Arabs was delivered that shed light on this profession that attracted the attention of Muslims, adding that the Arabs were able to distinguish their civilization from other nations through studying or examining pharmaceutical compounds in a scientific and effective way to enhance their inventions. The seminar also addressed Muslim scholars and their efforts in psychiatry and their efforts in workmanship of medicine until the first hospital was established for psychotherapy in Baghdad that became a center of medical education and the foundation for the establishment of rules so as to regulate the practice of medicine through translation and authorship by the prominent senior scholars and Muslim physicians who authored many writings on mental diseases and treatments via their practical observations.
