Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians by Geert Jan Van Gelder, Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah

Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians

Geert Jan Van Gelder, Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah

400 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history science challenging informative medium-paced
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To my knowledge...no one...has ever written a comprehensive book dealing with physicians through the ages and recounting their history in a coherent fashion. So wrote Syrian physician Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah, circa 1243, as he embarked on the first worl...

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