While evaluating historical aspects of medicine, Greco-Arabic period stands ahead in medical field, before the skills of the 20th century. Their great contributions to medicine by their efforts drew remedies from all across the world. Psoriasis, a skin disorder, most likely as old as mankind is mentioned in the vast classical literature. This review paper mainly highlights the contribution of physicians of Greco-Arab related with psoriasis. Their scientific observation about the disease, gave a brief description about etiopathogenesis, clinical presentation and management of the diseases. Present physicians may not be well aware of the richness of the medical literature about psoriasis. This review gathered a rich source of medical information about the history of psoriasis from the wealth of ancient literature
Psoriasis