This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...philosophers and skeptical inquirers after realities in the West, opened the entire range of Arabic science, and adopted it when the disintegrating elements of slothful ignorance began to recede before profounder knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and medicine. In the tenth century, the studies of Gerbert ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...philosophers and skeptical inquirers after realities in the West, opened the entire range of Arabic science, and adopted it when the disintegrating elements of slothful ignorance began to recede before profounder knowledge of mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and medicine. In the tenth century, the studies of Gerbert among the Saracens were apparently in an age when his contributions to the European stock of learning were lost in the dense gloom of superstition. CHAPTER XVI. Arabic Influence on Medical Art in Europe---Rapid Rise of Mahometanism--Caused by Justice to Subjects and Conquered Provinces--Their Swift Attainment to Science--Saracens Welcome Christian Scholars--Latter ect Selected as Tutors by Haroun al Raschid--Translations into Arabic by These--Galen's Medical Books Rendered in the Saracen Tongue--Hippocrates' Treatises Preserved at Bagdad--Scholastic and Scientific Culture Arise in Arab-Spain--Sanitary Arrangements of Abderaham--Early Writers on Medicine--Students Flock Thither from other Nations in Europe, Asia, etc.--Moslem Ruler by a Rescript Organizes the Professors of the Curative Art--His Interdict against Charlatans--Hospitals--Possible Early Knowledge of the Use of Aqua Vita. FROM whatever causes Mussulman power ascended so swiftly to dazzling greatness, and by the rapid extension of its conquests obtained the most cultured portions of the Orient and Western Europe within two centuries of its organization by Mahomet, is not germane to this treatise. In the seventh century the Arabians had overrun Syria, Egypt, Persia, and Africa, and subjugated these nations under lasting dominion; while in the next era Spain received these invincible conquerors, whose rule was to continue for many centuries. The resolute opposition with which th...
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