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Islamic medicine - 11

Part of the Islamic surveys series
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This highly readable survey describes the development of Islamic medicine and its influence on Western medical thought.

It explains the main features of Islamic medicine: its system of human physiology; its ideas about the nature of disease; its rules for diet and the use of drugs; and its relationship with astrology and the occult.

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Product Details
Edinburgh University Press
1474473377 / 9781474473378
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
08/08/2019
English
138 pages
Copy: 20%; print: 20%
Reprint. Published in Scotland. Transferred to digital printing Description based on print version record. Originally published: 1978.