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Islamic Medicine / Manfred Ullmann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys : NEISPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748609079
  • 9781474473378
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781474473378

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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)