Aqrābādhīn

by Kahl, Oliver

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Aqrābādhīn , “medical formulary, dispensatory, pharmacopoeia,” is a generic term referring to that branch of medico-pharmaceutical literature dealing with the preparation and application of compound drugs (adwiya murakkaba) , that is, pharmacology proper as opposed to pharmacognosy or applied botany, which is concerned with simple drugs (adwiya mufrada) . The term aqrābādhīn is of Greek origin (γραϕείδιον , dim. of γραϕεῖον , “registry,” through Syriac grāpādīn) , and seems to have entered Arab…

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Aqrābādhīn , “medical formulary, dispensatory, pharmacopoeia,” is a generic term referring to that branch of medico-pharmaceutical literature dealing with the preparation and application of compound drugs (adwiya murakkaba) , that is, pharmacology proper as opposed to pharmacognosy or applied botany, which is concerned with simple drugs (adwiya mufrada) . The term aqrābādhīn is of Greek origin (γραϕείδιον , dim. of γραϕεῖον , “registry,” through Syriac grāpādīn) , and seems to have entered Arabic during the early stages of the translation movement in Baghdad, i.e., around the turn of the second/eighth century. Under the

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1045

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eng Islam

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Kahl, Oliver

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