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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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Oriens
Year: 2017, Volume: 45, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 176-202 |
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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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