Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 58.5

YūHANNā IBN SERAPION (9th cent.) Iani Damasceni Decapolitani Svmmæ inter Arabes autoritatis Medici, therapeutic̜e methodi, hoc est, curandi artis libri Vii. Per Henrichum Petrum 1543 1st edition. [24], 491, [1] pages. 29 cm.

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First edition of Alban Thorer;s paraphrase of Books I-V of Serapion’s Therpeutica methodi, with Books V-Vii in the translation of Gerard Cremona, and with the Aphorisms published for the first time. The work is on special pathology and therapeutics. Serapion the Elder was a Christian physicians who flourished in Damascus in the second half of the ninth century. Two of his works, originally written in Syriac, survive, but because he drew on Arabic sources he is often included with Arabic authors of the period. The present work, also known as the Breviarum medicinae and the Practica, was several times translated into Arabic, and thence into Latin by Gerard of Cremona in the twelfth century.

Cited references: Durling 4778

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