Islamic Medicine English 2001

LECTURE 1 Meanings of the term Arabian Medicine Periods Arabian and Islamic history --- the Transmission of Greek learning --- Syria and Persian contributions --- The Latino Barbari--- Aptitude of Arabic for scientific purposes. LECTURE 2 Evolution of Scientific Terminology in Arabic--- Was dissection practiced by the Muslims? Four early Persian medical writers. LECTURE 3 Recapitulation --- Arabian Popular Medicine --- The Translators from Arabic into Latin Practice of medicine in the time of the crusadesAnecdotes of notable cures in Arabic and Persian literaturePsychotherapeusisLove and Melancholia--- Persian medical works --- Introduction of European Medicine into Muslim lands. LECTURE 4 Contribution of the Moors of Spain--- The School of ToledoPersian medical literature from the twelfth to the fourth teen centuries ---Biographical works of the thirteenth century--- Muslim hospitals ---Letters of Rashid the Physician --- Outlines of Muslim cosmogony, physical science and physiology ---Conclusion PB