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to express their ideas, feeling, and imagination, a large number of ancient arab poets employed terminologies current in that period, especially those related to spices and herbals and their advantages. their main impetus came from their investigative instinct as well as their religious beliefs that emphasize the importance of herbals for their medical and nutritional benefits. hence, such subj...

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...

INTRODUCTION Greco-Arabic Medicine imparts vast knowledge regarding diseases afflicting different systems. Urinary incontinence (UI) is involuntary leakage of urine. It is an undiagnosed, under-reported, and frequently untreated medical condition that greatlyaffects the quality of life of women in any age. Therefore, a literary search in classical literature of Greco-Arabic medicine for UI was ...

centuries. Starting from the pre-Islamic era in the 6th century AD and extending to the 16th Century AD when the Ottoman Sultan Salim I in 1516 AD invaded and destroyed the Mamluk Dynasty in Syria and Egypt extending the Ottoman Empire into North Africa. The language of science at the time was Arabic. Many scientists and physicians throughout the Muslim Empire taught and wrote in Arabic. This w...

From its dramatic rise in the seventh century, Islamic civilization has covered a large part of the globe, incorporating many subcultures and languages into its orbit (http:// www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/med_islam.html). Islamic medicine typifies that experience, being built on the theoretical and practical knowledge first developed in Greece and Rome. For Islamic scholars, Galen (d. ca. 210 AD)...