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Questions and answers for physicians : a medieval Arabic study manual / by Abd al-Aziz Al-Sulami ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gary Leiser and Noury Al-Khaledy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sulamī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār, approximately 1155-1208.
- Series:
- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian studies ; v. 3.
- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian studies ; v. 3
- Standardized Title:
- Imtiḥān al-alibbāʼ li-kāffat al-aṭibbāʼ. English & Arabic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Arab--History.
- Medicine, Arab.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Medicine--Study and teaching.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Kitab Imtihan al-alibba li-kaffat al-atibba
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a translation and edition of the medieval Arabic medical work entitled Imtiḥān al-alibbā' li-kāffat al-aṭibbā' ("The Experts' Examination for All Physicians"). It is a study guide for students of medicine prepared by Abd al-Azīz al-Sulami who was chief of medicine to the Ayyūbid sultan in Cairo between 596/1200 and 604/1208. It is composed of ten chapters on ten fields of medicine: the pulse, urine, fevers and crises, symptoms, drugs, treatment, ophthalmology, surgery, bonesetting, and fundamentals. Each chapter contains twenty questions on the respective subject with the answer to each question. In addition an authority is cited for each answer. This work sheds light on medical education in the medieval Middle East and is an epitome of the medical knowledge of the time.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; The Experts' Examination for All Physicians; CHAPTER ONE: On the Pulse; CHAPTER TWO: On Urine; CHAPTER THREE: On Fevers and Crises; CHAPTER FOUR: Favorable and Dangerous Symptoms; CHAPTER FIVE: On Simple Drugs; CHAPTER SIX: On Treatment; CHAPTER SEVEN: On What Ophthalmologists Should Be Asked; CHAPTER EIGHT: On What a Surgeon Should Be Asked; CHAPTER NINE: What the Bonesetter Should Be Asked; CHAPTER TEN: On the Fundamentals of This Art; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-124) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-46531-X
- 9786610465316
- 1-4237-1451-2
- 90-474-0291-X
- OCLC:
- 191931631
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047402916 DOI
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