Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine

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Yazar:

Amar, Zohar.

ISBN:

9780748697816

9780748697823

Ek Yazar:

Amar, Zohar.

Yayım Bilgisi:

[Place of publication not identified] : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Fiziksel Tanım:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Series:

Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture

Contents:

Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Agriculture and Pharmaceutical Innovations: Milestones in Research and Case Studies -- 3. ‘Arabian’ Substances -- 4. Discussion and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of English Names -- Index of Arabic Names -- Index of Scientific Names.

Abstract:

This book explores the impact of Greek (as well as Indian and Persian) medical heritage on the evolution of Arab medicine and pharmacology, investigating it from the perspective of materia medica - a reliable indication of the contribution of this medical legacy.

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Electronic books.

Added Author:

Lev, Efraim,

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https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/EUPB0000778.html

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For more than one thousand years Arab medicine held sway in the ancient world, from the shores of Spain in the West to China, India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the East. This book explores the impact of Greek (as well as Indian and Persian) medical heritage on the evolution of Arab medicine and pharmacology, investigating it from the perspective of materia medica - a reliable indication of the contribution of this medical legacy. Focusing on the main substances introduced and traded by the Arabs in the medieval Mediterranean - including Ambergris, camphor, musk, myrobalan, nutmeg, sandalwood and turmeric - the authors show how they enriched the existing inventory of drugs influenced by Galenic-Arab pharmacology. Further, they look at how these substances merged with the development and distribution of new technologies and industries that evolved in the Middle Ages such as textiles, paper, dyeing and tanning, and with the new trends, demands and fashions regarding spices, perfumes, ornaments (gemstones) and foodstuffs some of which can be found in our modern-day food basket.

Author Notes

Zohar Amar is a Professor at the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, and Director of the Unit on the History of Medicine at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Efraim Lev is a Professor at the Department of Israel Studies; and Head of The Interdisciplinary Center for the Broader Application of Genizah Research at the University of Haifa, Israel.

List of Plates	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Preface	p. x
Map: The Origin of the Main Medieval Arabian Drugs	p. xiv
1 Introduction	p. 1
Arab Attitude to Science	p. 2
Translation of Greek Science into Arabic	p. 3
Assimilation of Theoretical and Practical Medicine into Arab Culture	p. 5
Persian and Indian Medicine	p. 6
Indian Medicinal Substances	p. 9
Baghdad as an Intercultural Centre and the Triumph of the Galenic Medical Legacy	p. 10
The Commercial Aspect	p. 13
2 Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Innovations: Milestones in Research and Case Studies	p. 48
Indian Pharmacology and Galeno-Arab Medicine	p. 49
The 'Agriculture Revolution' and the Watson Thesis-Cucurbitaceae Family as a Model	p. 49
'Crusader Plants'	p. 59
Greek Literature and the Physicians of Andalusia as a Model	p. 60
Identification	p. 71
The Suggested Model	p. 72
3 'Arabian' Substances	p. 82
Drugs, Spices and Industrial Substances	p. 83
Drugs (myrobalan, anacardium, dragon's blood, tamarind, bamboo, shampoo ginger, purging cassia)	p. 83
Spices (clove, betel pepper, betel palm, turmeric, galingale, nutmeg, perfumed cherry; other substances-Indian aconite, zedoary, purging croton, cassia, berberry, fossil crab, sukk, tarangabin, sandarus, turpeth, neem, cubeb pepper)	p. 100
Industrial Substances (lacca, teac, sappan wood, warras)	p. 120
Perfumes and Incenses (agarwood, camphor, ambergris, sandalwood, jasmine, musk, screw pine)	p. 129
Gemstones (corundum, diamond, bezoar-stone)	p. 162
4 Discussion and Conclusions	p. 228
Bibliography	p. 237
Index of English Names	p. 275
Index of Arabic Names	p. 283
Index of Scientific Names	p. 289

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