Università di Torino

Drafts of Kahle’s "Anaesthesis in Arabic Medicine"

Object identifier ARC_803
Type Item

Titles

Title
Anaesthesis in the Arabic Medicine
Type
formal title
Title
Drafts of Kahle’s "Anaesthesis in Arabic Medicine"
Type
supplied title

Description

Various typewritten versions (only two complete) of the drafts of Paul Kahle’s “Anaesthesis in Arabic Medicine” (var. “Anaesthesis in the Arabic Medicine”). The article (in this English inedited version) concerns Mandragora (Ar. «yabrūḥ»), one of the most interesting items of Ibn Samaǧūn’s «Treatise on simple drugs», «al-Ǧāmiʻ fī al-adwiya al-mufrada», in which he describes its anaesthetic properties.

Languages

English

Arabic

Medium

paper

Archivistic typology and Extent

Extent
24
Archivistic typology
leaf/leaves

Dimensions in mm

Height
256
Width
200

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