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

Cooper, Glen M. (Author)

Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Volume: 24
Pages: 69--102

DOI: 10.1017/S095742391300009X

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Empiric medicine Medicine Translations Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment Philosophy of medicine Disease and diseases Methodology of science; scientific method Mathematics and its relationship to medicine 9th century Baghdad (Iraq) Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā al-Baʿlbakī Galen

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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