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Epidemics in context

Epidemics in context

Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition

By Peter E. Pormann

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Publish Date

2011

Publisher

De Gruyter

Language

eng

Pages

337

Description:

"The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen's Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny."--