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Author Paavilainen, Helena M.

Title Medieval pharmacotherapy, continuity and change : case studies from Ibn Sīnā and some of his late Medieval commentators / by Helena M. Paavilainen
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 795 pages)
Series Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; v. 38
Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 38.
Contents Historical background -- Research material -- Method of the study -- Nosebleed -- Cough -- Diabetes
Summary The development of medical drug therapy in medieval times is an interplay between tradition and innovation. This book tracks the changes in drug recommendations from the Arabic texts of Ibn SAnA to Latin medical scholasticism, demonstrating their essential rationality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Avicenna, 980-1037
Avicenna. idszbz
Subject Pharmacology -- History
Medicine, Medieval.
Pharmacopoeias.
Drug Therapy -- history
History, Medieval
MEDICAL -- Drug Guides.
MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
MEDICAL -- Pharmacy.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Pharmacology.
Medicine, Medieval
Pharmacology
Pharmacopoeias
Pharmakotherapie.
Arzneibuch.
Araber.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047424505
9047424506
1282602527
9781282602526