Arabic science at Aleppo

Proceedings of the First International Symposium for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, April 5-12, 1976, volume II, papers in European languages

VAIDYA BHAGWAN DASH, Tibetan medicine with special reference to Yoga Sataka, Dharamsala, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1976, 8vo, pp. xvi, 390, £6.00. Reviewed by Marianne Winder, M. A., A. LA., Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road. London NW! 2BP. Here is a book by a man who is a physician, a scholar, and active in public life, three qualities not often comb...

Risk Factors of Pneumothorax at Aleppo University Hospitals

Spontaneous pneumothorax can be either primary due to the rupture of subpleural bleb or secondary due to underlying lung disease, usually bullous emphysema.1 Relatively little is known about the causative factors of spontaneous pneumothorax in Arab Countries.1 This is the first study and the primary step towards understanding the risk factors and causes of spontaneous pneumothorax in Syria.Syri...

Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science

"concepts 'eternels"' (p. 23) to which we must respond. The first two papers (by Hellmut Flashar and Vivian Nutton) survey the similarities and differences between Hippocratic medical ethics and our own. As Nutton points out in the discussion of Flashar's paper, "the relationship between modem medical ethics and those that can be loosely termed Hippocratic is far from simple" (p. 21). "Hippocra...

Journal for the History of Arabic Science

In general the book is a study of the development of the chemical profession , c. 1800 to 1976, and in it there is a skilful blending of the technical content of chemistry and the social factors operating on it from without, together with dissension and rivalry from within. Education, chemical techniques, and the effects of two world wars, industrial depression and the E.E.C. are also dealt wit...

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