Islamic Medicine / / Manfred Ullmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Ullmann, Manfred,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys : NEIS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; FOREWORD --; THE CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction --; Chapter One Medical Conditions in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in the Umayyad Period --; Chapter Two The Age of the Translations --; Chapter Three Survey of the History of Arabic Medicine --; Chapter Four Physiology and Anatomy --; Chapter Five Pathology --; Chapter Six The Transmissibility of Illnesses and the Plague --; Chapter Seven Dietetics and Pharmaceutics --; Chapter Eight Medicine and the Occult --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474473378; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474473378
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Manfred Ullmann.

This highly readable survey describes the development of Islamic medicine and its influence on Western medical thought. It explains the main features of Islamic medicine: its system of human physiology; its ideas about the nature of disease; its rules for diet and the use of drugs; and its relationship with astrology and the occult.