Arabian medicine : being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the College of physicians in November 1919 and November 1920 / by Edward G. Browne.

  • Edward Granville Browne
Date:
1921
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Credit: Arabian medicine : being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the College of physicians in November 1919 and November 1920 / by Edward G. Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS The Rival Physicians Frontispiece (Photo, by Mr R. B. Fleming from the British Museum ms. Or. 2265, f. 26 b.) PAGE LECTURE I 1 Meaning of the term “Arabian Medicine”—Periods of Arabian and Islamic history—The transmission of Greek learning—Syrian and Persian contributions—The Latino- Barbari—Aptitude of Arabic for scientific purposes. LECTURE II 33 Evolution of scientific terminology in Arabic—Was dissec¬ tion practised by the Muslims?—Four early Persian medical writers: (1) ‘Ah' ibn Rabban; (2) Abii Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya ar-Razf; (3) ‘Alt ibnu’l-‘Abbas al-Majusi; (4) Abu ‘Ali Husayn ibn Sfna (Avicenna). LECTURE III 65 Recapitulation—Arabian popular Medicine—The translators from Arabic into Latin—Practice of Medicine in the time of the Crusades—Anecdotes of notable cures in Arabic and Persian literature—Psychotherapeusis—Love and Melan¬ cholia—Persian medical works—Introduction of European Medicine into Muslim lands. LECTURE IV 97 Contributions of the Moors of Spain—The School of Toledo —Persian medical literature from the twelfth to the four¬ teenth centuries—Biographical works of the thirteenth cen¬ tury—Muslim hospitals—Letters of “Rashid the Physician” —Outlines of Muslim cosmogony, physical science and phy¬ siology—Conclusion. INDEX 127
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