Al-Rāzī, on the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum)
Subtitle: the Latin and Hebrew translations
By: edited and translated by Gerrit Bos,  Michael McVaugh
Contributors: Bos, Gerrit, 1948-; McVaugh, M. R. (Michael Rogers), 1938-
Series: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series, 1570-1484 -- volume 14
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9789004292284; 9789004293038
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Pediatrics; Diseases; Translations into Latin; Translations into English; Children; Translations into Hebrew
Other titles: On the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum); De curis puerorum
Description: "The short Latin treatise De curis puerorum is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed (perhaps mistakenly) to the famous al-Rāzī (Rhazes); one of the rare texts on pediatrics circulating in the Middle Ages, it was so popular that it was soon re-translated into Hebrew, not once but three times! Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh have edited the Latin and Hebrew texts, accompanying them with an English translation and a full commentary situating the original Arabic against the medical writings available to tenth-century Islam. The contents of the work range remarkably widely, covering skin diseases, eye and ear infections, teething, vomiting and diarrhea, constipation, worms, and bladder stones, among other things, outlining their causes, symptoms, and possible treatments"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.