Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms, vi.11: A Medieval Medical Debate on Phrenitis

This article surveys selected Arabic commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms, Book Six, aphorism 11, documenting a five century-long debate on the disease known as phrenitis. We show how this debate springs from a variant transmission of the Hippocratic lemma. The variant reading, which appears in...

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Authors: Carpentieri, Nicola (Author) ; Mimura, Taro (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Oriens
Year: 2017, Volume: 45, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 176-202
Further subjects:B Arabic commentaries
B phrenitis
B Islamic medicine
B Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq
B Galen
B Hippocratic Aphorisms
B Greek to Arabic translation
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