Facets

1927 –1948

#6419

Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.

An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.

1928

#5814.1

The book of the ten treatises on the eye ascribed to Hunain Ibn Is-hâq. The earliest existing systematic text-book of ophthalmology. The Arabic text from the only two known manuscripts, with an English translation and glossary by Max Meyerhof.

The earliest extant systematic textbook of ophthalmology. The Arabs were the first to make a specialty of ophthalmology.

1928

#8532

The zoological section of the Nuzhatu-l-Qulūb of Hamdullāh Al-Mustaufī Al-Qazwīnī. Edited and translated by John Stephenson.

1930

#45

A treatise on the Canon of Medicine incorporating a translation of the First Book

This translation of Book I of the Canon accompanied by a large number of valuable notes and comments on the text, which bring out the close connection between Arabic and Chinese medicine, and the influence which Avice…

1930 –1932

#9240

Zur Heilkinde der Uiguren. Edited by G. R. Rachmati. 2 vols.

Old Uygur medical fragments, some of which are now lost, in the Berlin Turfan collection. Rachmati was the pioneer historian of Islamic Central Asian medicine.

1932 –1937

#7163

The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghāfiqī by Gregorius abu l-Faraj (Bar Hebraeus). Edited from the only two known manuscripts with an English translation, commentary and indices by M. Meyerhof and G. P. Sobhy Bey. 2 pts.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1933

#5815.1

(Al-morchid fi'l-kohhl) ou, Le guide d'oculistique: Ouvrage inédit de l'oculiste arabe-espagnol, Mohammad ibn Qassoum ibn Aslam al-Ghafiqi (XIIe siècle); traduction des parties ophtalmologiques d’après le manuscrit conservé à la bibliothèque de l’Escurial par Max Meyerhof.

1933

#6513

La médecine en Perse des origines à nos jours. Ses fondements theoriques d’après l’Encyclopédie médicale de Gorgani.

1933

#13340

L'école médicale de Kairouan aux x et xi siècles.

1934

#6514

Medicine in Persia.

1934

#8533

Tuhfat al-ahbāb: Glossaire de la matière médicale Marocaine.

1935

#753

Ibn an Nafis und seine Theorie des Lungenkreislaufs.

Ibn-al-Nafis, a Syrian physician, described the lesser circulation in his commentary on the anatomy of the Canon of Avicenna, 1268. This was discovered in three Arabic MSS by Mohyi el Din el Tatawi, who included a Ger…

1936

#5815

Memorandum book of a tenth-century oculist for the use of modern ophthalmologists. A translation of the Tadhkirat.

The Tadhkirat al-Kahhalin was one of the oldest and best of the medieval Arabic works on ophthalmology. It carefully described 130 diseases of the eye and became the standard work on the subject in the Middle East. Ge…

1936

#9241

Türkische Turfan-Texte 7 [APAW 12] edited by G. R. Rachmati.

Medieval medical texts from Turfan (Turpan), Central Asia.

1937

#9242

Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1937

#9441

The cataract operations of 'Ammar Ibn Alī Al-Mausilī by Max Meyerhof.

Mausilī invented a hollow metallic syringe, which he applied through the sclerotic, and successfully extracted cataracts through suction.

1937

#12675

The medico-philosophical controversy between Ibn Butlan of Baghdad and Ibn Ridwan of Cairo: A contribution to the history of Greek learning among the Arabs. (The Egyptian University, the Faculty of Arts: Publication 13.)

1939

#8527

Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.

1946

#6510

Outline of Arabic contributions to medicine and the allied sciences.

1951

#6515

A medical history of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the earliest times until the year A.D. 1932.

A continous history of the art and practice of medicine in Persia and bordering countries from the earliest times. Reprinted, with additions and corrections from the author’s copy: edited by G. van Heusden. Amsterdam,…

1953

#9243

The book of plants [Kitâb al-nabât] of Abū Hanīfa ad-Dīnawari: Part of the alphabetical section (j-i). Edited and translated by Bernhard Lewin.

1958

#13218

Das Buch der Gifte des Gābir Ibn Hayyān Arabischer Text in Faksimile (Hs. Taymūr [sic] Tibb 393, Kairo), übersetzt und Erläuter von Alfred Siggel. (Akademie der Wissenschaften under der Literature [Mainz], Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, Band XIII).

Edition and translation of Jabir's The Book on Poisons and on the Repelling of their Harmful Effects (Kitāb al-Sumūm wa-dafʿ maḍārrihā, Kr. no. 2145).

1960

#7162

Le premier manuscrit chirurgical turc, rédigé par Charaf-ed-Din (1465), et illustré de 140 miniatures.

An edition of BnF Ms. suppl. turc 693.

1962

#9254

Tibb-ul-Nabbi or medicine of the Prophet.

Digital facsimile from itsites.harvard.edu at this link.

1963

#7413

A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.

1964

#11945

Die Assimilation der arabischen Medizin durch das lateinische Mittelalter. (Sudhoffs Archive, Beiheft 3.)

1964

#13717

Bibliography of medicine and pharmacy in medieval Islam. Mit einer Einfuhrung, Arabismus in der Geschichte der Pharmazie, von Rudolf Schmitz.

1965

#12569

Hedayat al-Motaallemin fi Tebb. Edited by Jalal Matini.

First printed edition of the earliest medical work written in the Persian language. Matini based his edition on the 11th century codex Bodleian Library Ms. 37, checking that against the other two known copies of the t…

1966

#8419

Medicinalia Arabica. Studien über arabische medizinische Handschriften in türkischen und syrischen Bibliotheken. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaftern in Göttingen. phil. hist. Klasse, Dritte Folge, No. 66).

1966

#8531

The medical formulary or Aqrābādhin of al Kindi. Edited and translated by Martin Levey.

1967

#6786.13

A catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

1967

#7414

The medical formulary of Al-Samarqandi and the relation of early Arabic simples to those found in the indigenous medicine of the Near East and India.

1967

#8490

Index of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the National Library of Cairo.

1970

#6510.01

Die Medizin im Islam. [Handbuch der Orientalistik, Ergänzungsband 6/1].

1970

#7161

Safavid medical practice; or, the practice of medicine, surgery and gynaecology in Persia between 1500 A. D. and 1750 A. D.

1971

#6510.1

Bibliography of medieval Arabic and Jewish medicine and allied sciences.

1971

#6510.2

Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 3. Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.

1971

#7389

Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 4, Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430H.

1971

#8348

Die toxikologischen Schriften der Araber bis Ende des XII. Jahrhunderts: Ein bibliographischer Versuch, grossenteils aus handschriftlichen Quellen.

First published in Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin 52 (1871 and 57 (1873).

1973

#7095

Early Arabic pharmacology. An introduction based on ancient and medieval sources.

1973

#9255

Medizinisches in Tausendundeiner Nacht: Ein literaturgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur islamischen Heilkunde.

1973

#9353

Albucasis on surgery and instruments. A definitive edition of the Arabic text, with English translation and commentary by M. S. Spink and G. L. Lewis.

1975

#6510.3

History of Arab medicine.

1975 –1991

#8489

An annotated bibliography of Islamic science by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. 3 vols. Vols. 1 and 3 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick; Vol. 2 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick and Peter Zirnis.

A comprehensive historical bibliography in English on Islamic science, including medicine, documenting classic works and scholarship up to 1990, In English and Arabic. Vol. 1: General works and Biographical and biblio…

1975

#9250

Medizin und Magie. Heilkunde und Geheimlehre des islamischen Zeitalters. [Medizingeschichtliche Miniaturen 1].

1976

#8193

Islamic science: An Illustrated study.

Includes chapters on natural history, medicine and pharmacology, agriculture and irrigation, man and the natural environment.

1976

#12422

Die arabische Medizin im lateinischen Mittelalter (Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akad. der Wiss., Math. naturw. Klasse, Jrhrg. 1976, 2. Abh.)

1978

#9248

Islamic medicine. [Islamic surveys 11].

1982

#6510.4

Islamic miniature painting in medical manuscripts.

1983

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.