A literary history of medicine : the 'Uyūn al-anbā' fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā' of Ibn Abī Uṣaybi'ah /

A literary history of medicine : the 'Uyūn al-anbā' fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā' of Ibn Abī Uṣaybi'ah /

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"A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybi'ah (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 practi...

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Other Authors: Gelder, G. J. H. van (Editor, Translator, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/trl), Savage-Smith, Emilie (Editor, Translator, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/trl), Sánchez Rojo, Ignacio Javier (Editor, Translator, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/trl), Swain, Simon (Editor, Translator, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/trl)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Handbook of Oriental studies Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 134/1-3.
Subjects:
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah, Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim, > -1269 or 1270
Medicine > History
Medicine, Arab
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Medicine, Medieval
Physicians > Biography
Physicians > Arab countries > Biography

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