when cultures collide, through its major activities that emanate from the translation, they can flourish themselves. intimacy and familiarity of the islamic world with greek medical heritage which happened to be in the golden age of the abbasids in baghdad, led to the enrichment and prosperity of islamic medicine. this sort of familiarity and reproductivity grew among nestorian christians throu...

Many Greek and Latin medical terms are in use on account of the fact that modern day Western conventional medicine originates in Greek and Roman antiquity. The writings of Hippocrates and Galen, as well as of Celsus and Plinius, remain the principal source of the constituent elements of medical terminology and the base for the correctness of Western scientific onomatology. However, the number o...

of Shatzmiller's evidence points in that direction also. One might also add that the claims made at the end of the century for a new Greek-based medicine would have helped to speed up this process, for few Jews had the opportunity to learn Greek, and their preference for practical medicine in the Arabic tradition was easily dismissed as.old-fashioned. In short, this is a fascinating little book...

when cultures collide, through its major activities that emanate from the translation, they can flourish themselves. intimacy and familiarity of the islamic world with greek medical heritage which happened to be in the golden age of the abbasids in baghdad, led to the enrichment and prosperity of islamic medicine. this sort of familiarity and reproductivity grew among nestorian christians throu...

The Greek pharmacologist Dioscorides’s De Materia Medica is one of the greatest works in history Greek-Arabic Traditional Medicine, and also an essential medical textbook pharmacological standard Europe. This paper studied historical background, academic characteristics, editions, significant contributions to traditional medicine Dioscorides. It was concluded that book has substantial scientifi...