{"product_id":"the-medical-formulary-of-al-samarqandi-martin-levey-9781512803914","title":"The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqandi: And the Relation of Early Arabic Simples to Those Found in the Indigenous Medicine of the Near East and India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Medical Formulary of Al-­Samarqandi\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the high development of pharmacology by the Arabs in the Middle Ages. It was far from a dark period in science for it was in this area, as well as in Arabic optics and chemistry, that experimental science first began to develop. This is shown by al-Samarqandi's work which describes many new drugs, chemical processes, and a more advanced pharmacological theory. No part of this work has ever before been brought to the notice of historians of medicine. For the first time, the authors give a complete translation of this Aqrâbōdhīn in order to present a complete picture of the pharmacological knowledge of the day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is a comprehensive section of Notes and Comments with particular attention being drawn to the present-day usage of old Arabic drugs, the employment of the drugs in the much earlier al-Kindi Medical Formulary, and to the etymological discussion of Arabic plant names not studied in previous works on the subject. Finally there is a Glossary of Arabic-English terms and a selected Bibliography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Levey, Noury Al-Khaledy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 151280391X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781512803914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/1967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d","brand":"Martin Levey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46094152499455,"sku":"9781512803914","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_02c1ee3e-cec1-414d-bb6a-df3aa346ba83.jpg?v=1724843834","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-medical-formulary-of-al-samarqandi-martin-levey-9781512803914","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}