Islamic medicine

Author(s)

• Ullmann, Manfred
• Watt, Jean

Bibliographic Information

Islamic medicine

Manfred Ullmann ; [translated by Jean Watt]

（Islamic surveys, 11）

Edinburgh University Press, c1978

• : pbk

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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Details

• NCID: BA18327241
• ISBN:
  • 0852243251
  • 9780748609079
• LCCN: 78310925
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: und
• Place of Publication: Edinburgh
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 138 p., [4] leaves of plates
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS36.85
  • LCC : R143
  • DC : 909/.09/7671 s
  • DC : 610/.917/671
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medicine, Arabic
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0112572X