Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. FOREWORD v
3. THE CONTENTS vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Chapter One Medical Conditions in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in the Umayyad Period 1
7. Chapter Two The Age of the Translations 7
8. Chapter Three Survey of the History of Arabic Medicine 41
9. Chapter Four Physiology and Anatomy 55
10. Chapter Five Pathology 72
11. Chapter Six The Transmissibility of Illnesses and the Plague 86
12. Chapter Seven Dietetics and Pharmaceutics 97
13. Chapter Eight Medicine and the Occult 107
14. Abbreviations 115
15. Notes 117
16. Index 131