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- Title
Medieval Judaeo-Arabic medicine as described in the Cairo Geniza.
- Authors
Isaacs, H. D.
- Abstract
The article presents information on medieval Judaeo-Arabic medicine as illustrated in the manuscripts of Cairo Geniza. The manuscripts are presently located at the Cambridge University library, in Cambridge, England. The manuscripts have been written in Arabic and Hebrew. The components of the manuscripts can be subdivided into several categories as the summarization of diseases and their treatments. The ailments most prominently featured are fevers and eye diseases.
- Subjects
CAMBRIDGE (England); ENGLAND; CAIRO Genizah; HEBREW manuscripts; JUDAISM &; medicine; EYE diseases; UNIVERSITY of Cambridge
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1990, Vol 83, Issue 11, p734
- ISSN
0141-0768
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/014107689008301118