Islamic Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780748609079 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 136 str.

Manfred Ullmann

Opis

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.