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  • Chapter 9 - When the Doctor Is Not Around

  • from Part II - The Borders of Pharmacology
  • Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dionysios Stathakopoulos, University of Cyprus
  • Book:
    Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023, pp 291-319

  • Summary

    As a subgenre of the Arabic medical literature of the Islamic Middle Period, the self-treatment compendia seem to have escaped the notice of contemporary scholarship. Meant for domestic use by Arabic-speaking, cultured urbanites, the compendia dealt with the cure and prevention of diseases. As such, they promoted a well-defined set of concepts and, at the same time, reflected medicine-related convictions, knowledge, and intellectual tradition prevailing not only among physicians, but also among educated non-professionals. While taking into consideration a number of Arabic-Islamic self-treatment compendia, the chapter focuses on two specific texts, one of which was written in fourteenth-century Cairo. The provenance of the other cannot be securely defined. The analysis of the manuals’ texts is focused, above all, on investigating cultural and intellectual influences which, through the transfer and assimilation of drugs and drug-related ideas, contributed to shaping the overall medico-pharmaceutical culture of the Mamluk Near East.