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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

LUQĀ AL-BA'ALBAKKI, Qustā ibn (Costa ben Luca, Constabulus) (820 – 912)

820 – 912

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1992

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Qustā ibn Lūqā's medical regime for the pilgrims to Mecca. The Risāla fī tabīr safar al-hajj. Edited with translation and commentary by Gerrit Bos.

BOS, Gerrit LUQĀ AL-BA'ALBAKKI, Qustā ibn (Costa ben Luca, Constabulus) (820 – 912)

The only known early health guide for the pilgrim to Mecca, by the Syrian Melkite Christian physician, scientist and translator.