A Literary History of Medicine: The ?Uyun al-anba? fi ?abaqat al-a?ibba? of Ibn Abi U?aybi?ah. Volume 3-1: Annotated English Translation

A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author’s contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes. These volumes present the first complete and annotated translation along with a new edition of the Arab...