Histoire des Bimaristans (Hopitaux) à l'époque Islamique. Discours prononcé au Congrès Médical tenu au Caire à l'occasion du centenaire de l'Ecole de médecine et de l'Hôpital Kasr-el-Aïni en Décembre 1928.

Name: Histoire des Bimaristans (Hopitaux) à l'époque Islamique. Discours prononcé au Congrès Médical tenu au Caire à l'occasion du centenaire de l'Ecole de médecine et de l'Hôpital Kasr-el-Aïni en Décembre 1928.
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SKU: 19327
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ID #19327

Bey, Ahmed Issa.

4to. 116 pp., half-title, 5 b/w plates, modern quarter calf, slightly rubbed at spine, light staining to lower inner margin of first four leaves, pencil underlining on title, otherwise copy in very good condition, Imprimerie Paul Barbey, Le Caire, Cairo, first edition, 1928.

A history of Islamic hospitals written by an Egyptian scholar, and delivered at the medical conference held in December 1928 in celebration of one hundred year of the establishment of Kasr al-Aini hospital in Cairo.
A Bimaristan, also known as dar al-shifa is a hospital in the historic Islamic world. The term 'Bimaristan' is of Persian origin that originally meant 'location of disease.'

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