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Author : Mahmoud Mohamed Sadek
Publisher : St-Jean-Chrysostome, Québec : Éditions du Sphinx
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab
ISBN : UOM:39015008865860
Author : Pedanius Dioscorides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Botany, Medical
ISBN : 348714719X
Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0415966922
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Author : Pedanius Dioscorides,Tess Anne Osbaldeston,Robert P. A. Wood
Publisher : Ibidis Press
Page : 939 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Botany, Medical
ISBN : 0620234350
Author : John M. Riddle
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780292729841
For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40–80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives. Why, then, have his works remained obscure in recent centuries? Because of one small oversight (Dioscorides himself thought it was self-evident): he failed to describe his method for organizing drugs by their affinities. This omission led medical authorities to use his materials as a guide to pharmacy while overlooking Dioscorides' most valuable contribution—his empirically derived method for observing and classifying drugs by clinical testing. Dioscorides' De materia medica, a five-volume work, was written in the first century. Here revealed for the first time is the thesis that Dioscorides wrote more than a lengthy guide book. He wrote a great work of science. He had said that he discovered the natural order and would demonstrate it by his arrangement of drugs from plants, minerals, and animals. Until John M. Riddle's pathfinding study, no one saw the genius of his system. Botanists from the eighteenth century often attempted to find his unexplained method by identifying the sequences of his plants according to the Linnean system but, while there are certain patterns, there remained inexplicable incoherencies. However, Dioscorides' natural order as set down in De materia medica was determined by drug affinities as detected by his acute, clinical ability to observe drug reactions in and on the body. So remarkable was his ability to see relationships that, in some cases, he saw what we know to be common chemicals shared by plants of the same and related species and other natural product drugs from animal and mineral sources. Western European and Islamic medicine considered Dioscorides the foremost authority on drugs, just as Hippocrates is regarded as the Father of Medicine. They saw him point the way but only described the end of his finger, despite the fact that in the sixteenth century alone there were over one hundred books published on him. If he had explained what he thought to be self-evident, then science, especially chemistry and medicine, would almost certainly have developed differently. In this culmination of over twenty years of research, Riddle employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.
Author : Efrayim Lev,Zohar ʿAmar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004161207
The authors provide a new insight to the practice of medical care in the medieval world. They examine the medicinal prescriptions and references to materia medica of the Cairo Genizah by combining the approaches of ethnobotany and history of medicine.
Author : Selma Tibi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004146969
In this publication, the extensive but cautious use of opium in a variety of remedies by Baghdad physicians in the ninth century shows an amazing awareness of the therapeutic usefulness and potential dangers of the opiate.
Author : Helen Anne Curry,Nicholas Jardine,James Andrew Secord,Emma C. Spary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781316510315
Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.
Author : Selma Tibi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789047417200
In this publication, the extensive but cautious use of opium in a variety of remedies by Baghdad physicians in the ninth century shows an amazing awareness of the therapeutic usefulness and potential dangers of the opiate.
Author : Duane Isely
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1557532834
A great collection of the lives of important botanists throughout time, this book is part biography and part vignette.
Author : Delacy O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317847489
First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world, later passing on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O'Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites; Indian influences by land and sea and the rise of Buddhism, O'Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect for all those interested in the history of medicine and science, and of historical geography as well as the history of the Arab world.
Author : Susan Reynolds Whyte,Sjaak van der Geest,Anita Hardon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521804698
An anthropological study of the social functions and meanings of medicines in different cultures.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588394828
Family guide, Dazzling details in folded front cover.
Author : Peter Dendle,Alain Touwaide
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781843839767
Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity. The important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and thought, both in the Latin Western medical tradition and in Byzantine and medieval Arabic medicine, is the focus of this new collection. Following a general introduction and a background chapter on Late Antique and medieval theories of wellness and therapy, in-depth essays treat such wide-ranging topics as medicine and astrology, charms and magical remedies, herbal glossaries, illuminated medical manuscripts, women's reproductive medicine, dietary cooking, gardens in social and political context, and recreated medieval gardens. They make a significant contribution to our understanding ofthe place of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice, and thus lead to a greater appreciation of how medieval theories and therapies from diverse places developed in continuously evolving and cross-pollinating strands, and, in turn, how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion, identity, and the human relationship with the natural world. Contributors: MARIA AMALIA D'ARONCO, PETER DENDLE, EXPIRACION GARCIA SANCHEZ, PETER MURRAY JONES, GEORGE R. KEISER, DEIRDRE LARKIN, MARIJANE OSBORN, PHILIP G. RUSCHE, TERENCE SCULLY, ALAIN TOUWAIDE, LINDA EHRSAM VOIGTS
Author : Zohar Amar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474413183
Explores the impact of drugs introduced by the Arabs on medieval Mediterranean medicineFor more than one thousand years Arab medicine held sway in the ancient world, from the shores of Spain in the West to China, India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the East. This book explores the impact of Greek (as well as Indian and Persian) medical heritage on the evolution of Arab medicine and pharmacology, investigating it from the perspective of materia medica a reliable indication of the contribution of this medical legacy.Focusing on the main substances introduced and traded by the Arabs in the medieval Mediterranean including Ambergris, camphor, musk, myrobalan, nutmeg, sandalwood and turmeric the authors show how they enriched the existing inventory of drugs influenced by Galenic-Arab pharmacology. Further, they look at how these substances merged with the development and distribution of new technologies and industries that evolved in the Middle Ages such as textiles, paper, dyeing and tanning, and with the new trends, demands and fashions regarding spices, perfumes, ornaments (gemstones) and foodstuffs some of which can be found in our modern-day food basket.Key FeaturesAssesses the assimilation of theoretical and practical Greek, Indian and Persian medicine into Arabic medical cultureReconstructs and presents a list of medicinal substances distributed by the Arabs as a result of their conquestsTells the stories of 33 new Arabic drugs within the context of their natural historyDescribes the contribution of the Arabs to the daily medieval cultural material (medicine, cosmetics, perfumery, dyeing of materials, industrial products and precious stones)Includes 35 colour illustrations