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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Table of Contents:
- 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