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Islamic Medicine
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Manfred Ullmann
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English
Published/Copyright:
1997
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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.
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Frontmatter
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FOREWORD
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THE CONTENTS
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List of Illustrations
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Introduction
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Chapter One Medical Conditions in Pre-Islamic Arabia and in the Umayyad Period
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Chapter Two The Age of the Translations
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Chapter Three Survey of the History of Arabic Medicine
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Chapter Four Physiology and Anatomy
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Chapter Five Pathology
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Chapter Six The Transmissibility of Illnesses and the Plague
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Chapter Seven Dietetics and Pharmaceutics
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Chapter Eight Medicine and the Occult
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Abbreviations
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Notes
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Index
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eBook ISBN:
9781474473378
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Keywords for this book
Islamic Studies
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College/higher education;
