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Ulfáz Udwiyeh, or the Materia Medica : In the Arabic, Persian, and Hindevy Languages / Compiled by Noureddeen Mohammed Abdullah al-Shirazi, Translated by Francis Gladwin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic, Persian, Hindi Series: Cambridge library collection. Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society.Publisher: Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1793Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Description: 1 online resource (viii, 111 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781139507394 (ebook)
Other title:
  • Ulfáz udwiyeh
  • Materia medica
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 610 23
LOC classification:
  • R128.3 .M84 1793
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

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