Arabian Medicine And Its Influence on the Middle Ages

REPRINT 2006. Hardbound. Cloth. Octavo. English, Book Two volumes in one. front. (map). 207, 235 pages. London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1926. A history of the origin and development of Arabian Medicine and its subsequent cultivation among the Arabistae of the Latin West. With the decline of the Graeco-Roman civilization, the movement of culture drift was eastward, passing through the hands of the Syriac scholars of Asia. Classical culture was carried on by Arabic scholars through the prism of Islamic teaching.

Chapters on: Greek Medicine in its relation to the Arabians; Arabic Medical Writers and their Works; The Age of Early Arabian Rumors in the West, The Latin Translators and the College at Toledo, Hellenism and Arabism in the Fifteenth Century, and more.