Questions and Answers for Physicians - Leiser, Gary / Al-Khaledy, Noury (eds.)
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This is a translation and edition of the medieval Arabic medical work entitled Imti n al-alibb?' li-k?ffat al-a?ibb?' ("The Experts' Examination for All Physicians"). It is a study guide for students of medicine prepared by Abd al-Az?z al-Sulami who was chief of medicine to the Ayy?bid sultan in Cairo between 596/1200 and 604/1208. It is composed of ten chapters on ten fields of medicine: the pulse, urine, fevers and crises, symptoms, drugs, treatment, ophthalmology, surgery, bonesetting, and fundamentals. Each chapter contains twenty questions on the respective subject with the answer to each…mehr

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This is a translation and edition of the medieval Arabic medical work entitled Imti n al-alibb?' li-k?ffat al-a?ibb?' ("The Experts' Examination for All Physicians"). It is a study guide for students of medicine prepared by Abd al-Az?z al-Sulami who was chief of medicine to the Ayy?bid sultan in Cairo between 596/1200 and 604/1208. It is composed of ten chapters on ten fields of medicine: the pulse, urine, fevers and crises, symptoms, drugs, treatment, ophthalmology, surgery, bonesetting, and fundamentals. Each chapter contains twenty questions on the respective subject with the answer to each question. In addition an authority is cited for each answer. This work sheds light on medical education in the medieval Middle East and is an epitome of the medical knowledge of the time.
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Gary Leiser, Ph.D. (1976) in History, University of Pennsylvania, is Director of the Travis Air Museum, Travis AFB, California. He has published extensively on the social history of the Medieval Middle East, including translations of the most important historical works of M.F. Köprülü. The late Noury Al-Khaledy was Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at Portland State University.