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    By Edward G. Browne
    Cambridge   Cambridge University Press
    9" by 6" vii [2], 2-138 [1]pp
    The first edition of this publication of Iranologist Edward Granville Browne's Fitzpatrick lectures on the history of Arabian medicine.
    By Edward G. Browne

    1921 Arabian Medicine: Being the Fitzpatrick Lectures Delivered at the College of Physicians in November 1919 and November 1920

    Cambridge   Cambridge University Press
    9" by 6" vii [2], 2-138 [1]pp
    The first edition of this publication of Iranologist Edward Granville Browne's Fitzpatrick lectures on the history of Arabian medicine.
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    Description

    First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

    Illustrated with a frontispiece, retaining the original tissue guard.

    This volume consists of four lectures given by Browne in November 1919 and November 1920 at the Royal College of Physicians as part of the Fitzpatrick Lectures series, given annually on the subject of the history of medicine.

    Among the topics encountered in these lectures are the evolution of scientific terminology in Arabic, the practice of medicine at the time of the Crusades, Muslim hospitals, and the contributions of the Spanish Moors to medicine.

    With the former owner's stamp of Vernon J. Watney to the front free endpaper.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. A touch of fading to back strip, otherwise externally fine. Ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright.

    Near Fine

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