Medieval pharmacotherapy, continuity and change : case studies from Ibn Sīnā and some of his late Medieval commentators /

The development of medical drug therapy in medieval times can be seen as an interplay between tradition and innovation. This book follows the changes in the therapy from the Arabic medicine of Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) to Latin medical scholasticism, aiming to trace both the continuity and the development...

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Main Author: Paavilainen, Helena M.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 38.
Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.

Subjects:

Avicenna, > 980-1037.

Drug Therapy > history.

History, Medieval.

Medicine, Arabic > history.