On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Artwas lost to scholars for centuries before it was discovered in the Biblioteca Nacional de España by the great bio-bibliographer Moritz Steinschneider, who initially thought it was simply another copy ofOn Asthma. The publication of this new translation marks the first time the Arabic manuscript and Gerrit Bos’s English version have been available to a modern audience in any form. It is in Maimonides’s favored aphoristic format and contains some unique advice on serious abdominal wounds, which is most likely a reflection on Maimonides’s own experience with battlefield casualties.
Gerrit Bosis chair of the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne.Y. Tzvi Langermannteaches in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.
Sigla and Abbreviations
Foreword to the Series
Preface
Introduction
On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art
Supplement
Glossary of Technical Terms and Materia Medica
Notes to the English Translation
Bibliographies
Editions and Translations of Works by Moses Maimonides
General Bibliography
Subject Index to the English Translation
“This is a very welcome addition to our knowledge of the medical treatises of Maimonides and is a book which should be in the collection of specialists and general students alike.”
"[T]his slim volume is so well executed....This translation will enable scholars of medieval medicine who are not Arabists to make use of the text, and it is sure to become an implSF
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