Yazar
Muḣammad 'Abd Allāh, Nūr al-Dīn, al-Shīrāzi̲, active 1625-1640
Basım Tarihi
1793
Basım Yeri
Place of publication not identified -
publisher not identified
Tür
Kitap
Dil
ara,eng,fas,hin
Dijital
Evet
Yazma
Hayır
Sayfa Sayısı
111
Kütüphane
Bielefeld Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi
Kayıt Numarası
991025812583906442
Tarih
1793
Notlar
This materia medica - a book of collected knowledge about medicines and their properties - was originally written in Persian by Noureddeen Mohammed Abdullah al-Shirazi (fl.1625-40), physician to the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, to whom it was dedicated. This 1793 publication contains entries in Persian, Arabic and Hindi, with English translations by Francis Gladwin (1744-1812), an employee of the East India Company and professor of Persian at Fort William College. The work begins by giving traditional Arabic evaluations of each type of medicine in terms of its power on a scale of 1 to 4, before presenting the dictionary of over 1,400 medicines, some with notes on their properties and usage. Providing an insight into healing practices in India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this work remains of interest to scholars in the history of medicine.
İlgili kişiler
Gladwin, Francis, -1813?
ISBN
1-139-50739-7
Dizi başlığı
Cambridge library collection.