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TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xiii
FOREWORD
xvii
INTRODUCTION
1
PART I – BYZANTINE MEDICINE
CHAPTER I – HISTORICAL OUTLINE
7
CHAPTER II – RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
19
CHAPTER III – SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
31
CHAPTER IV – MEDICINE
47
A) Late Alexandrian and Byzantine Medicine
47
a) Aetius of Amida (502-575 AD)
54
b) Alexander of Tralles (c.525-605 AD)
57
c) Paul of Aegina (c.625-690 AD)
65
d) Others
80
B) Hospitals and Medical Teaching
104
a) Hospitals
104
b) Medical Teaching
120
C) Physicians, Education, and Ethics
126
CHAPTER V – OVERVIEW
137
A) Anatomy
137
B) Physiology
144
C) Medicine and Therapeutics
145
D) Surgery
155
CHAPTER VI – CONCLUSIONS
161
PART II – ISLAMIC MEDICINE
CHAPTER I – HISTORICAL OUTLINE
169
CHAPTER II – RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
179
CHAPTER III – SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
185
A) Mathematics
187
B) Astronomy
191
C
Alchemy
194
CHAPTER IV – MEDICINE
199
A) Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Medicine
201
B) Translation of Texts into Arabic
204
C) Eastern Caliphate
213
a) Isa ibn Hakam (d. 840 AD)
213
b) Yuhanna ibn Masawayh (Mesue – c.777-857)
213
c) Hunayn (Johannitius – c.809-875)
215
d) Al-Tabari (c.810-855)
222
e) Al-Kindi (c.803-873)
227
f) Isaac Israeli (c.880-c.932)
233
g) Al-Razi (Rhazes – 865-925)
235
h) Al-Majusi (Ali Abbas – c.925-994)
251
i) Ibn Sina (Avicenna – 980-1037)
258
j) Ibn al-Nafis (c.1210 – c.1288)
270
k) Others
282
D) Western Caliphate
303
a) Al-Zahrawi (Albucasis – c.936-1013)
304
b) Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar – c.1091-c.1162)
320
c) Ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd (Averroes – 1126-1198)
326
d) Ibn Maymun (Maimonides – c.1138-1204)
330
e) Others
340
E) Supernaturalistic Medicine
345
a) Prophetic Medicine
345
b) Medicine, Magic, and Astrology
352
F) Hospitals
360
G) Physicians, Education, and Ethics
375
a) Physicians
375
b) Education
385
c) Ethics
392
CHAPTER V – OVERVIEW
407
A) Anatomy
407
B) Physiology
412
C) Medicine and Therapeutics
422
a) Psychiatry
424
b) Ophthalmology
427
c) Pharmacology
434
D) Surgery
446
CHAPTER VI – CONCLUSIONS
459
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
471
INDEX
479
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