The mirror of health discovering medicine in the Golden Age of Islam
The mirror of health : discovering the Golden Age of Islam examines the Royal College of Physicians' collection of Arabic and Persian medical texts - which has never been on public display before. This catalogue accompanied the 2013 exhibition which explored the development of medical science i...
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Royal College of Physicians of London
2013
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Table of Contents:
- In the beginning there was Galen
- Avicenna and his legacy
- Anatomy: the unknown frontier
- al-Razi, the clinician
- Magis, divination and astrology
- Therapeutic through medication, cupping and venestion
- Latin into Arabic: how Paracelsus' new chemistry filtered into the Ottoman Empire
- Collectors and cataloguers during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment
- Modern collectors