2014
DOI: 10.1017/s095742391300009x
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Rational and Empirical Medicine in Ninth-Century Baghdad: Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā's Questions on the Critical Days in Acute Illnesses

Abstract: The article considers a brief catechistic presentation of a Galenic medical doctrine, the critical days, by the 9 th century translator and thinker, Qusṫā ibn Lūqā (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 Qusṫā propounds. Lastly, the piece is compared with an earlier attempt, by al-Kindī (d. c. 870), to describe the critical… Show more

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