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Book/Printed Material A Compendium of Medicine.

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Title

  • A Compendium of Medicine.

Summary

  • The author of this untitled medical treatise is unknown. The introduction states that the work consists of four chapters: 1) on the basic principles of classification of medical sciences; 2) on medication and nutrition; 3) on diseases that infect certain parts of the body; and 4) on diseases that infect other parts of the body. The main text is in Arabic, and some notes are in Persian. The manuscript, written in a Nastaliq script with nine lines per page, is difficult to date because the colophon is missing. A printed note, probably clipped from an old catalog, is mounted on the last blank page and states: "A very fine and unpublished Persian [sic] manuscript on medicine in red leather binding of 17th century." It cannot be confirmed whether the treatise in fact dates from the 17th century or that it was ever published. The manuscript is at the Medical Historical Library in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1600 to 1699]

Headings

  • -  1600 to 1699
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Diseases
  • -  Medicine, Arab
  • -  Medicine, Medieval

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 463 unnumbered leaves ; 26 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Yale University Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic and Persian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667277

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

A Compendium of Medicine. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1699, 1600] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667277/.

APA citation style:

(1600) A Compendium of Medicine. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1699] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667277/.

MLA citation style:

A Compendium of Medicine. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1699, 1600] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667277/>.