A Literary History of Medicine

Emilie Savage-Smith, FBA, was Professor of the History of Islamic Science, University of Oxford. Publications include A New Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, I: Medicine (2012) and, with Y. Rapoport, Lost Maps of the Caliphs(2019) Simon Swain, FBA, is Professor of Classics, University of Warwick. Publications include Hellenism & Empire (1996), Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon’s Physigonomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam (2007), Economy, Family and Society from Rome to Islam (2013). Geert Jan van Gelder, PhD Leiden 1982; Lecturer in Arabic, University of Groningen, 1975–1998; Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford, 1998–2012. Fellow of the KNAW and the British Academy; author of many publications on Classical Arabic literature. Contributors: Ignacio Sánchez, N. Peter Joosse, Alasdair Watson, Bruce Inksetter, Franak Hilloowala

Volume 3-1 Annotated English Translation



Preface

 Bruce Inksetter



1 The Origin and First Appearance of the Art of Medicine

 Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Emilie Savage-Smith



2 Physicians Who Perceived the Rudiments of the Art of Medicine and Initiated the Practice of That Art

 Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain



3 Greek Physicians Descended from Asclepius

 Bruce Inksetter, Simon Swain and Ignacio Sánchez



4 Greek Physicians to Whom Hippocrates Transmitted the Art of Medicine

 Ignacio Sánchez and Simon Swain



5 Physicians from or after the Time of Galen

 Simon Swain



6 Alexandrian Physicians and Their Christian and Other Contemporaries

 Bruce Inksetter and Simon Swain



7 Arab and Other Physicians of the Earliest Islamic Period

 Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez



8 Syriac Physicians of the Early Abbasid Period

 Bruce Inksetter, Emilie Savage-Smith and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)



9 Physicians Who Translated Works on Medicine and Other Subjects from Greek into Arabic, and Their Patrons

 Bruce Inksetter and Ignacio Sánchez



10 Iraqi Physicians and the Physicians of al-Jazīrah and Diyār Bakr

 Alasdair Watson and Geert Jan van Gelder (poetry)