Pormann, Peter E. (2008) Case notes and clinicians : Galen's commentary on the Hippocratic epidemics in the Arabic tradition. Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Vol.18 (No.2). pp. 247-284. doi:10.1017/S0957423908000568 ISSN 0957-4239.

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Abstract

Galen’s Commentaries on the Hippocratic Epidemics constitute one of the most detailed studies of Hippocratic medicine from Antiquity. The Arabic translation of the Commentaries by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (d. c. 873) is of crucial importance because it preserves large sections now lost in Greek, and because it helped to establish an Arabic clinical literature. The present contribution investigate the translation of this seminal work into Syriac and Arabic. It provides a first survey of the manuscript tradition, and explores how physicians in the medieval Muslim world drew on it both to teach medicine to students, and to develop a framework for their own clinical research.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) P Language and Literature > PA Classical philology
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Galen. Commentarii quattuor in librum Hippocratis De victus ratione in morbis acutis, Hippocrates. Epidemics, Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn, d. 910 or 11, Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800, Medicine, Arab, Manuscripts, Arabic
Journal or Publication Title:	Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0957-4239
Official Date:	September 2008
Dates:	Date Event September 2008 Published
Volume:	Vol.18
Number:	No.2
Page Range:	pp. 247-284
DOI:	10.1017/S0957423908000568
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)

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