Article ID: CBB001321038

Rational and Empirical Medicine in Ninth-Century Baghdad: Qustā Ibn Lūqā's Questions on the Critical Days in Acute Illnesses (2014)

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The article considers a brief catechistic presentation of a Galenic medical doctrine, the critical days, by the 9th century translator and thinker, Qus ibn L q (d. 912/3), found in a manuscript in Iran. The piece is first shown to have been derived from Galen's treatise on the critical days. Then, it is discussed section by section, in commentary form, to elucidate the medical doctrines Qus propounds. Lastly, the piece is compared with an earlier attempt, by al-Kind (d. c. 870), to describe the critical days mathematically. The various medical doctrines behind the treatise are discussed, as are the varying approaches to scientific method. The article concludes with contrasting the a priori mathematical scientific method of al-Kind with the a posteriori empirical method of Galen/Qus , and offers suggestions about the chronologies of the appearances of these doctrines and texts in Arabic. A transcription of the Arabic text is appended.

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Authors & Contributors
Pormann, Peter E.
Violet Moller
Rebekah Lee
Salas, Luis Alejandro
Mutalik, Gururaj
Tillu, Girish
Concepts
Philosophy of medicine
Medicine
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Disease and diseases
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Translations
Time Periods
9th century
Medieval
Ancient
17th century
18th century
Renaissance
Places
Baghdad (Iraq)
Greece
Salerno (Italy)
Córdoba (Spain)
Africa, Sub-Sahara
Middle and Near East
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