The authors provide a new insight to the practice of medical care in the medieval world. They examine the medicinal prescriptions and references to materia medi

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Adopts a pan-Mediterranean approach to the study of medieval medicine and pharmacology, which permits a deeper understanding of broader phenomena such as the tr

An online, Open Access version of this work is also available from Brill. A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270)