Studies in medieval Arabic medicine
Subtitle: theory and practice
By: Max Meyerhof ; edited by Penelope Johnstone.
Contributors: Johnstone, Penelope.
Series: Variorum reprint ;; CS204
Publisher: Variorum Reprints
Published: 1984
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre; ara
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Medicine, Arab -- History; Jews -- Medicine -- History; Jewish physicians -- Middle East; Medicine, Medieval
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Arabic, English, and French.
Table of contents: title: New light on Ḥunain Ibn Isḥāq and his period; title: The history of trachoma treatment in antiquity and during the Arabic Middle Ages; title: Sultan Saladin's physician on the transmission of Greek medicine to the Arabs; title: An Arabic compendium of medicophilosophical definitions; title: Thirty-three clinical observations by Rhazes (circa 900 AD); title: Ibn an-Nafīs (XIIIth century) and his theory of the lesser circulation; title: Mediaeval Jewish physicians in the Near East, from Arabic sources; title: L'oeuvre médicale de Maimonide; title: Maimonides against Galen on philosophy and cosmogony; title: Esquisse d'histoire de la pharmacologie et botanique chez les musulmans d'Espagne; title: La surveillance des professions médicales et para-médicales chez les arabes.