Al-Rāzī, on the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum) : the Latin and Hebrew translations / edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh.

  • Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Date:
2015
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On the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum)
De curis puerorum

Description

"The short Latin treatise De curis puerorum is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed (perhaps mistakenly) to the famous al-Rāzī (Rhazes); one of the rare texts on pediatrics circulating in the Middle Ages, it was so popular that it was soon re-translated into Hebrew, not once but three times! Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh have edited the Latin and Hebrew texts, accompanying them with an English translation and a full commentary situating the original Arabic against the medical writings available to tenth-century Islam. The contents of the work range remarkably widely, covering skin diseases, eye and ear infections, teething, vomiting and diarrhea, constipation, worms, and bladder stones, among other things, outlining their causes, symptoms, and possible treatments"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Leiden : Brill, 2015.

Physical description

230 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Sigla and abbreviations -- Edition of the Latin translation -- Critical edition of the anonymous Hebrew translation -- Critical edition of the Hebrew translation by Bonfos -- English rendering of the Latin translation -- Commentary on the text of Al-Razi -- Supplement: Corruptions in the Hebrew translations -- Synopsis of the Latin and Hebrew translations -- Glossary of Latin and Hebrew terms -- Hebrew indices -- English glossary of technical terms.

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    History of Medicine
    UR.CA.AA1
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ISBN

  • 9789004292284
  • 9004292284