The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqandi (eBook)

And the Relation of Early Arabic Simples to Those Found in the Indigenous Medicine of the Near East and India

Noury Al-Khaledy, Martin Levey (Autoren)

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2016
384 Seiten
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-5128-0392-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqandi demonstrates the high development of pharmacology by the Arabs in the Middle Ages. It was far from a dark period in science for it was in this area, as well as in Arabic optics and chemistry, that experimental science first began to develop. This is shown by al-Samarqandi's work which describes many new drugs, chemical processes, and a more advanced pharmacological theory. No part of this work has ever before been brought to the notice of historians of medicine. For the first time, the authors give a complete translation of this Aqrbdhīn in order to present a complete picture of the pharmacological knowledge of the day.There is a comprehensive section of Notes and Comments with particular attention being drawn to the present-day usage of old Arabic drugs, the employment of the drugs in the much earlier al-Kindi Medical Formulary, and to the etymological discussion of Arabic plant names not studied in previous works on the subject. Finally there is a Glossary of Arabic-English terms and a selected Bibliography.

Autor

Martin Levey was Professor of History of Science at State University of New York at Albany. Noury Al-Khaledy was Professor of Arabic at Portland State College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Anniversary Collection
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Schlagworte: European History • History • Medieval and Renaissance Studies • World History
• ISBN-10: 1-5128-0392-8 / 1512803928
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5128-0392-1 / 9781512803921