Ullmann, Manfred <br/><br/>
Islamic medicine  
Manfred Ullmann 
 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press,  c1978. 
 - xiv, 138 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
 - Islamic surveys ;  11 .
 - Islamic surveys .
<br/><br/> Includes indexes. 
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<br/><br/>Medical conditions in pre-Islamic Arabia and in the Umayyad Period; the age of transition; survey of the history of Arabic medecine; physiology and anatomy; pathology; the transmissability of illnesses and the plague; dietetics and pharmaceutics; medecine and the occult. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780748609079 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medicine, Arab
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.917671 UL IS