TY  - BOOK
AU  - Al-Khaledy,Noury
AU  - Leiser,Gary
TI  - Questions and Answers for Physicians: A Medieval Arabic Study Manual by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Sulamī 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789047402916
AV  - R143 
U1  - 610 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Education, Medical
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Medicine, Arab
KW  - History
KW  - Medicine, Medieval
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This is a translation and edition of the medieval Arabic medical work entitled Imtiḥān al-alibbā' li-kāffat al-aṭibbā' ("The Experts' Examination for All Physicians"). It is a study guide for students of medicine prepared by Abd al-Azīz al-Sulami who was chief of medicine to the Ayyūbid sultan in Cairo between 596/1200 and 604/1208. It is composed of ten chapters on ten fields of medicine: the pulse, urine, fevers and crises, symptoms, drugs, treatment, ophthalmology, surgery, bonesetting, and fundamentals. Each chapter contains twenty questions on the respective subject with the answer to each question. In addition an authority is cited for each answer. This work sheds light on medical education in the medieval Middle East and is an epitome of the medical knowledge of the time
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047402916
ER  -