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The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo / Leigh Chipman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chipman, Leigh.
- Series:
- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 8.
- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series, 1570-1484 ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmacy--Egypt--Cairo--History.
- Pharmacy.
- Pharmacopoeias--Egypt--Cairo--History.
- Pharmacopoeias.
- Medicine, Arab--History.
- Medicine, Arab.
- ʻAṭṭār al-Hārūnī, Dāwud ibn Abī Naṣr, active 13th century. Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-aʻyān fī aʻmāl wa-tarākīb al-adwīyah al-nāfiʻah lil-abdān.
- Medical Subjects:
- ʻAṭṭār al-Hārūnī, Dāwud ibn Abī Naṣr, active 13th century. Minhāj al-dukkān wa-dustūr al-aʻyān fī aʻmāl wa-tarākīb al-adwīyah al-nāfiʻah lil-abdān.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 318 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. Minhāj al-dukkān (\'How to manage a pharmacy\'), by Abū ʾl-Munā al-Kūhīn al-ʿAṭṭār (fl. 1260) is the first attempt to explore the full spectrum of pharmacy in the medieval Arabic world: identification of the materia medica and methods of preparation; pharmacy's place within the sciences and particularly its relationship with medicine; the social position of the pharmacist and his role in the marketplace and the hospital; the economics of pharmacy; legal aspects of pharmacy; and the image of the pharmacist in literature and drama. The result is a full and nuanced picture of a section of society usually invisible.
- Contents:
- Minhāj al-dukkān as a pharmaceutical text
- Paternal advice in Minhāj al-dukkān
- Practical knowledge in Minhāj al-dukkān
- The pharmacist and the scientific context
- The pharmacist in the marketplace.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-94969-1
- 9786612949692
- 90-474-2950-8
- OCLC:
- 700470958
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004176065.i-318 DOI
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