Islamic Medicine / / 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 relations...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1997 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys : NEIS
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (136 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |