Islamic Medicine

Author/Contributor(s):	Ullmann, Manfred
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Date:	02/11/1997
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This highly readable survey describes the development of Islamic medicine and its influence on Western medical thought. It explains the main features of Islamic medicine: its system of human physiology; its ideas about the nature of disease; its rules for diet and the use of drugs; and its relationship with astrology and the occult.