Islamic medicine
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Bibliographic Information
Islamic medicine
（Islamic surveys, 11）
Edinburgh University Press, c1978
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Available at 16 libraries
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Note
Abbreviations: p. 115-116
Notes: p. 117-130
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Medical conditions in pre-Islamic Arabia and in the Umayyad Period
- the age of transition
- survey of the history of Arabic medecine
- physiology and anatomy
- pathology
- the transmissability of illnesses and the plague
- dietetics and pharmaceutics
- medecine and the occult.
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