A Treatise On The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna Incorporating A Translation of The First Book.
London: Luzac & Co., 1930. Binding: contemporary full decorative black cloth, title in gilt on flat spine, Arabic title in gilt on the upper board. , Notes: The Canon of Medicine is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Persian Muslim physician-philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (AD 980-1037) and completed in 1025. It presents an overview of the contemporary medical knowledge of the Islamic world, which had been influenced by earlier traditions including Greco-Roman medicine (particularly Galen), Persian medicine, Chinese medicine and Indian medicine.
The Canon of Medicine remained a medical authority for centuries. It set the standards for medicine in Medieval Europe and the Islamic world and was used as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe. It is an important text in Unani medicine, a form of traditional medicine practiced in India.
, Size: 8vo., , Illustration: Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, in text illustrations and two folding charts. , Category: Book Medical; Book Asia Middle East Iran;. A fine example in publishers’ full decorative cloth. Item #B6448
Binding: contemporary full decorative black cloth, title in gilt on flat spine, Arabic title in gilt on the upper board. , Notes: The Canon of Medicine is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Persian Muslim physician-philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (AD 980-1037) and completed in 1025. It presents an overview of the contemporary medical knowledge of the Islamic world, which had been influenced by earlier traditions including Greco-Roman medicine (particularly Galen), Persian medicine, Chinese medicine and Indian medicine.
The Canon of Medicine remained a medical authority for centuries. It set the standards for medicine in Medieval Europe and the Islamic world and was used as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe. It is an important text in Unani medicine, a form of traditional medicine practiced in India.
, Size: 8vo., , Illustration: Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece, in text illustrations and two folding charts. , Category: Book Medical; Book Asia Middle East Iran;.
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