Syriac Medicine and Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic Translation of the Hippocratic Aphorisms

This volume traces this history from Justinian-era monastic communities through Sassanid medical academies to the caliphal court at Baghdad by comparing the Syriac and Arabic translations of the Hippocratic Aphorisms, a venerable Greek introduction to the art of medicine, focusing on the work of the famous translator and physician Hunayn ibn Ishaq.