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Hunain Ibn Ishaq's Questions on Medicine for Students : Transcription and Translation of the Oldest Extant Syriac Version (Vat. Syr. 192) - Softcover
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Hunain Ibn Ishaq's Questions on Medicine for Students : Transcription and Translation of the Oldest Extant Syriac Version (Vat. Syr. 192)
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Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cittą del Vaticano
(2010)
ISBN 10: 8821008665
ISBN 13: 9788821008665
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. xxiii, 615 pages : facsimiles ; 26 cm. The text is presented through facsimile reproductions of the manuscript pages, on which the Syriac and Arabic versions are written in parallel columns; the facing pages give a transcription of the Syriac text accompanied by an English translation. Introduction in English. Contents: Introduction 1. The roots of medieval medicine 2. Hunain ibn Ishaq 3. The legacy of Hunain and his fellows in the West 4. The Syriac manuscripts of Hunain's "Questions on Medicine" The Arabic manuscripts of Hunain's "Questions on Medicine" 6. Notes on transcription and translation 7. Herbs and other drugs mentioned in the text 8. A selected bibliography Text and translation: End of discussion on organic disease ; On the "Interruption of integrity" ; Constitutional predispositions of the body ; Causes of disease ; Maiming of body parts ; "Narrowness" of openings ; "Wideness" of openings ; The causes of an excessive number of organs ; The causes of a deficiency in the number of organs ; The causes of hypertrophy of organs ; The causes of hypotrophy of organs ; Malposition of organs ; The causes of an "interruption of integrity" ; Signs of organs with uniform components ; Signs of compound organs ; Types of symptoms ; Signs indicating diseased organs ; The divisions of medical care ; Varieties of therapies ; The varieties of "special" therapies ; Healing "smoothness" ; Treating excessive numbers of organs ; Treating hypertrophy, hypotrophy and dislocation of body parts ; Treating the "interruption of integrity" ; Modes of administering drugs ; useful types of surgery ; Determining the qualities of remedies ; On choosing the right medicine ; The rules of accomplishing convalescence ; On the evacuation of substances from the body ; Evaluating the healing process ; The treatment of organs with regard to their location ; Heating agents ; The outcomes or effects of substances which enter the body ; The rules of the examination of simple drugs ; Principles of compounding ; Reasons for compounding drugs ; The opinions of the Empiricists vs. those of the Rationalists ; Discussion of compound drugs continued ; The four phases of diseases ; On the pulse ; The categories of medical theory ; Hair color ; Eye coloration ; Body types ; Changes in air, the seasons, etc. ; The effects of movement on the body ; The effects of rest on the body ; Varieties of food ; The effects of sexual intercourse ; The effects of mental diseases on the body ; Variations in the substances of organs ; Types of "powers" in the body ; Discussion of the brain ; Types of fever ; The evacuation or retention of body substances ; Varieties of tumors ; Discussion of urine. Seller Inventory # PGVATX120
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