The Medicinal Use of Opium in Ninth-century Baghdad (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian) - Hardcover

Tibi, Selma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004146962 ISBN 13: 9789004146969

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2005

Synopsis

This book examines the knowledge and therapeutic use of opium and various species of poppy by physicians in ninth-century Baghdad (the leading medical centre then) as seen in key works by six outstanding physicians, with reference to others.
The study opens with a brief look at early Islamic knowledge of the Graeco-Roman use of opium, while examining in detail entries on opium and poppy in the Arabic version of Dioscorides's influential and fundamental Materia medica. The core of the study aims to establish to what extent and how opium and poppy are used in the selected books of the six physicians.
The comprehensive glossaries of Materia medica, Ailments and Conditions, and General Terms are particularly useful for the medical historian.

About this title

About the Author:

Selma Tibi, M.R. Pharm. S. (1974), D.Phil. (2003) in the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, is a Community Pharmacist working in Oxford. Her research interests are medieval Islamic history, Islamic civilisation and the transmission of Islamic medicine to the Latin West.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 9004146962
• ISBN 13: 9789004146969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 314