1482 AVERROËS [IBN RUSHD (ARABIC: ابن رشد), FULL NAME ʾABŪ L-WALĪD MUḤAMMAD IBN ʾAḤMAD IBN RUŠD] (1126 – 1198)
Colliget.
The Kitab-al-Kullyat or Colliget (Book of Universals) was an “attempt to found a system of medicine upon the neo-Platonic modification of Aristotle’s philosophy” (Garrison, p. 132). Averroës was the greatest Arab comm…
GMN 48 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8769
1500 –1501 ABULCASIS (ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN AL-ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI; أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي), [Albucasis] (936 – 1013); GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368); GERARD OF CREMONA, (Gerardus Cremonensis) (1114 – 1187); IBN 'ISÃ AL-KAHHAL, Ali (Jesu Occulist) (980 – ); AMMAR AL MAWSILĪ, Abu'l -l Kāsim (1050 – ); MARROCHINUS, Dominicus ( – 1300); CANAMUSALI DE BALDACH (1220 – )
Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum (Tr: Gerardus Cremonensis). IN: Guy de Chauliac: Chirurgia parva. Add: Albulcasis: Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum. Jesus filius Hali: De oculis (Tr: Dominicus Marrochinus). Canamusali de Baldach: De oculis.
The surgical section of Albucasis’s Altasrif, the first rational, complete and illustrated treatise on surgery and surgical instruments. The author was an Arab Muslim physician and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus. Dur…
GMN 3666.82 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5371
1500 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); AVENZOAR [IBN ZUHR (ARABIC: ابن زهر ] (1092 – 1162); MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857)
Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni. Add: Johannes Damascenus [Mesue?]: Aphorismi. Hippocrates: Secreta; Prognosticatio secundum lunam; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis; De insomniis. Avenzohar: De curatione lapidis.
An edition of the Latin translation of Maimonides’ Aphorismi (first published, Venice, 1489), together with a compilation of the works of Mesue, Avenzoar, Galen, etc. Page for page reprint, Venice, 1508. See No. 6495.…
GMN 53 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8772
1531 IBN BUTLĀN, Abuʾl-Ḥasan Al-Mukhtār Ibn ʿAbdūn Ibn SaʿDūn. ابو الحسن المختار ابن عبدون ابن بطلان (Elluchasem Elimithar) ( – 1068); IBN AL-WAFID, Ali Ibn al-Husain (Abenguefit) (997 – 1074); AL-KINDĪ, Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ ;أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي ( Alkindus) (801 – 873); WEIDITZ, Hans The Younger (1495 – 1537)
Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar Medici de Baldath, de sex rebus non naturalibus, earum naturis, operationibus, & rectificationibus, publico omnium usui, conseruandae sanitatis, recens exarati. Albengnefit De uirtutibus medicinarum, & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus De rerum gradibus.
A Christian physician of Baghdad, Ibn Butlān traveled widely, eventually settling in Antioch. His treatise on hygiene and dietetics, Taqwām al-sihhah (The Almanac of Health) presented a guide to medical regimen in tab…
GMN 7627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9799
1778 ABULCASIS (ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN AL-ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI; أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي), [Albucasis] (936 – 1013); CHANNING, John (1703 – 1775)
De chirurgia. Arabice et Latine cura Johannis Channing. 3 vols.
This parallel Arabic-Latin edition prepared by the apothecary John Channing is the first printed edition in Arabic, and the first modern edition of the text. Digital facsimile of the 1778 edition from Bayerische Staat…
GMN 5550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6849
1805 AMOREUX, Pierre-Joseph (1741 – 1824)
Essai historique et littéraire sur la médecine des Arabes.
The first European history of Arab or Islamic medicine. Amoreux was professor in the faculty of medicine in Montpellier (an Arabist medical center in the Renaissance), and also the librarian. He stated in the introduc…
GMN 12993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15242
1833 PLAYFAIR, George; KHAN, Hakim Muhammad Sharif (1722 – 1807)
The Taleef shereef, or Indian materia medica translated from the original by George Playfair, Superintending Surgeon, Bengal Service. Published by The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10384
1840 WÜSTENFELD, Heinrich Ferdinand (1808 – 1899)
Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher.
This has traditionally been considered the first major history of Arab medicine. It was written mostly in the form of a chronological series of bio-bibliographies, and should also be considered a pioneering bibliograp…
GMN 6502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8045
1855 BERTHERAND, Émile-Louis (1821 – 1890)
Médecine et hygiène des Arabes. Études sur l’exercice de la médecine et de la chirurgie chez les Musulmans de l’Algérie, leurs connaissances en anatomie, histoire naturelle, pharmacie, médecine légale, etc. Leurs conditions climatériques générales, leur pratiques hygiéniques publiques et privées, leurs maladies, leurs traitements les plus usités. Précédées de considérations sur l’état général de la médecine chez les principales nations Mahométanes.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 6503 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8048
1860 DJELAL ED-DIN, Abou Soleiman Daoud (1350 – ); PERRON, Nicolas (1798 – 1876)
La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.
First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.
GMN 6504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8633
1876 LECLERC, Lucien (1816 – 1893)
Histoire de la médecine arabe. Exposé complet des traductions du grec. Les sciences en Orient, leur transmission à l’Occident par les traductions latines. 2 vols.
An exhaustive history, for its time, of Arabian medical translations from East to West and vice versa. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 6505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8060
1879 HYRTL, Josef (1810 – 1894)
Das Arabische un Hebräische in der Anatomie.
Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Prague and Vienna, retired in 1874 and devoted his leisure to the writing of this and his Onomatologia anatomica. Garrison considered Hyrtl, along with Littré, among the greatest medical…
GMN 443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1104
1903 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); IBN AL'ABBAS AL MAJUSI, Ali (Haly Abbas) (930 – 994); AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); KONING, Pieter de
Trois traités d'anatomie arabes par Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas, et 'Ali ibn Sina. Text inédit de deux traités. Traduction de P. de Koning.
Parallel Arabic and French texts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10539
1906 OPITZ, Adolf Hermann Karl (1877 – )
Die Medizin im Koran.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8062
1908 CHÉRIF, Ahmed
Histoire de la médecine Arabe en Tunisie.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10414
1913 HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873); BERGSTRÄSSER, Gotthelf (1886 – 1933)
Ḥunain ibn Isḥāḳ und seine Schule: Sprach- und literargeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu den arabischen Hippokrates- und Galen-Übersetzungen.
GMN 12624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14864
1921 BROWNE, Edward Granville (1862 – 1926)
Arabian medicine. Being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in November 1919 and November 1920.
Browne, an eminent authority on oriental languages, became professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8064
1922 HILTON-SIMPSON, Melville William (1881 – 1938)
Arab medicine and surgery. A study of the healing art in Algeria.
Medicine, surgery and pharmacology as practiced among the nomadic Arabs in Algeria at time of writing.
GMN 6508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8067
1926 CAMPBELL, Donald
Arabian medicine and its influence on the Middle Ages. 2 vols.
A survey of the Arabian medical writings of the Eastern and Western Caliphates. The first volume includes a survey early Arabic medical manuscripts then known, and a survey of the Arab medical writers of the Eastern a…
GMN 6509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8069
1927 –1948 SARTON, George Alfred Léon (1884 – 1956)
Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.
An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.
GMN 6419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8412
1928 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873)
The book of the ten treatises on the eye ascribed to Hunain Ibn Is-hâq. The earliest existing systematic text-book of ophthalmology. The Arabic text from the only two known manuscripts, with an English translation and glossary by Max Meyerhof.
The earliest extant systematic textbook of ophthalmology. The Arabs were the first to make a specialty of ophthalmology.
GMN 5814.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7003
1932 –1937 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165); BAR HEBRAEUS, Gregory (1226 – 1286)
The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghāfiqī by Gregorius abu l-Faraj (Bar Hebraeus). Edited from the only two known manuscripts with an English translation, commentary and indices by M. Meyerhof and G. P. Sobhy Bey. 2 pts.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7163 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9330
1933 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165)
(Al-morchid fi'l-kohhl) ou, Le guide d'oculistique: Ouvrage inédit de l'oculiste arabe-espagnol, Mohammad ibn Qassoum ibn Aslam al-Ghafiqi (XIIe siècle); traduction des parties ophtalmologiques d’après le manuscrit conservé à la bibliothèque de l’Escurial par Max Meyerhof.
GMN 5815.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7012
1933 BEN MILED, Ahmed (1902 – 1994)
L'école médicale de Kairouan aux x et xi siècles.
GMN 13340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15608
1935 IBN-AL-NAFIS (ALA-AL-DIN ABU AL-HASSAN ALI IBN ABI-HAZM AL-QARSHI AL-DIMASHQI; علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي الدمشقي ) (1210 – 1288); MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945)
Ibn an Nafis und seine Theorie des Lungenkreislaufs.
Ibn-al-Nafis, a Syrian physician, described the lesser circulation in his commentary on the anatomy of the Canon of Avicenna, 1268. This was discovered in three Arabic MSS by Mohyi el Din el Tatawi, who included a Ger…
GMN 753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1873
1937 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); IBN BUTLĀN, Abuʾl-Ḥasan Al-Mukhtār Ibn ʿAbdūn Ibn SaʿDūn. ابو الحسن المختار ابن عبدون ابن بطلان (Elluchasem Elimithar) ( – 1068); IBN RIDWAN AL-MISRI, Abu'l Hassan Ali (988 – 1061); SCHACHT, Joseph Franz (1902 – 1969)
The medico-philosophical controversy between Ibn Butlan of Baghdad and Ibn Ridwan of Cairo: A contribution to the history of Greek learning among the Arabs. (The Egyptian University, the Faculty of Arts: Publication 13.)
GMN 12675 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14919
1946 KHAIRALLAH, Amin Asad
Outline of Arabic contributions to medicine and the allied sciences.
GMN 6510 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8070
1958 IBN HAYYAN, Jabir ( – 816); SIGGEL, Alfred (1884 – 1959)
Das Buch der Gifte des Gābir Ibn Hayyān Arabischer Text in Faksimile (Hs. Taymūr [sic] Tibb 393, Kairo), übersetzt und Erläuter von Alfred Siggel. (Akademie der Wissenschaften under der Literature [Mainz], Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, Band XIII).
Edition and translation of Jabir's The Book on Poisons and on the Repelling of their Harmful Effects (Kitāb al-Sumūm wa-dafʿ maḍārrihā, Kr. no. 2145).
GMN 13218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15482
1962 ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)
Tibb-ul-Nabbi or medicine of the Prophet.
Digital facsimile from itsites.harvard.edu at this link.
GMN 9254 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11436
1963 ABULCASIS (ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN AL-ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI; أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي), [Albucasis] (936 – 1013); HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010); SONNEDECKER, Glenn A.
A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.
GMN 7413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9585
1964 HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)
Bibliography of medicine and pharmacy in medieval Islam. Mit einer Einfuhrung, Arabismus in der Geschichte der Pharmazie, von Rudolf Schmitz.
GMN 13717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16001
1966 DIETRICH, Albert (1912 – 2015); DIETRICH, M. L.
Medicinalia Arabica. Studien über arabische medizinische Handschriften in türkischen und syrischen Bibliotheken. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaftern in Göttingen. phil. hist. Klasse, Dritte Folge, No. 66).
GMN 8419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10596
1967 ISKANDAR, Albert Z.
A catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.
GMN 6786.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8364
1967 LEVEY, Martin (1913 – 1970); AL-KHALEDY, Noury; AL-SAMARQANDĪ, Najīb al-Dīn Abū Hāmid Muhammad b. Alī b. 'Umar ( – 1222)
The medical formulary of Al-Samarqandi and the relation of early Arabic simples to those found in the indigenous medicine of the Near East and India.
GMN 7414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9586
1970 ULLMANN, Manfred (1931 – )
Die Medizin im Islam. [Handbuch der Orientalistik, Ergänzungsband 6/1].
GMN 6510.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8071
1971 EBIED, Rifaat Y.
Bibliography of medieval Arabic and Jewish medicine and allied sciences.
GMN 6510.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8072
1971 SEZGIN, Fuat (1924 – )
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 3. Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.
GMN 6510.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8073
1971 SEZGIN, Fuat (1924 – )
Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 4, Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430H.
GMN 7389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9561
1971 STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907)
Die toxikologischen Schriften der Araber bis Ende des XII. Jahrhunderts: Ein bibliographischer Versuch, grossenteils aus handschriftlichen Quellen.
First published in Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin 52 (1871 and 57 (1873).
GMN 8348 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10524
1973 LEVEY, Martin (1913 – 1970)
Early Arabic pharmacology. An introduction based on ancient and medieval sources.
GMN 7095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9262
1973 BRANDENBURG, Dietrich
Medizinisches in Tausendundeiner Nacht: Ein literaturgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur islamischen Heilkunde.
GMN 9255 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11437
1975 HADDAD, Sami I. (1890 – 1957)
History of Arab medicine.
GMN 6510.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8075
1975 –1991 NASR, Seyyed Hossein (1933 – ); CHITTICK, William C. (1943 – ); ZIRNIS, Peter
An annotated bibliography of Islamic science by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. 3 vols. Vols. 1 and 3 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick; Vol. 2 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick and Peter Zirnis.
A comprehensive historical bibliography in English on Islamic science, including medicine, documenting classic works and scholarship up to 1990, In English and Arabic. Vol. 1: General works and Biographical and biblio…
GMN 8489 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10666
1975 BRANDENBURG, Dietrich
Medizin und Magie. Heilkunde und Geheimlehre des islamischen Zeitalters. [Medizingeschichtliche Miniaturen 1].
GMN 9250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11432
1976 NASR, Seyyed Hossein (1933 – )
Islamic science: An Illustrated study.
Includes chapters on natural history, medicine and pharmacology, agriculture and irrigation, man and the natural environment.
GMN 8193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10369
1976 SCHIPPERGES, Heinrich (1918 – 2003)
Die arabische Medizin im lateinischen Mittelalter (Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akad. der Wiss., Math. naturw. Klasse, Jrhrg. 1976, 2. Abh.)
GMN 12422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14652
1978 ULLMANN, Manfred (1931 – )
Islamic medicine. [Islamic surveys 11].
GMN 9248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11430
1982 BRANDENBURG, Dietrich
Islamic miniature painting in medical manuscripts.
GMN 6510.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8076
1983 MUSALLAM, Basim F. (1943 – )
Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.
GMN 9095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11274
1983 –1984 HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010); ANEES, Munawar A.
Health sciences in early Islam. Collected papers by Sami K. Hamarneh. Edited by Munawar A. Anees. 2 vols.
GMN 13716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16000
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