A Literary History of Medicine

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Title

A Literary History of Medicine

Subject

Ancient healthcare
Medicine

Description

A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author’s contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes.

Creator

Geert Jan Gelder (editor)
Emilie Savage-Smith(editor)

Source

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/89758/9789004545601.pdf;jsessionid=578BE6598E6A2B800DC5332FBD2160C7?sequence=1

Publisher

Brill

Date

2024

Contributor

Mustabsyirah

Rights

Creative Commons

Format

PDF

Language

Arabic, English

Type

Textbooks

Files

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Citation

Geert Jan Gelder (editor) Emilie Savage-Smith(editor), “A Literary History of Medicine,” Open Educational Resource (OER) - USK Library, accessed April 24, 2025, http://202.4.186.74:8004/oer/items/show/8179.

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