Kept Alive in Arabic

Galen's On Medical Experience

التجربة الطبّيّة لجالينوس

A debate between a physician who relies on experience alone and one who relies on reasoning, at the root of a quarrel between two schools of ancient medicine. Its Greek original is lost but for fragments; it survives whole in Hubaysh ibn al-Hasan's translation, published by Richard Walzer in Arabic and English at Oxford in 1944.

Author

Galen (2nd century; translated by Hubaysh ibn al-Hasan)

Field

Medicine

What Arabic kept

The whole book

Greek title

Περὶ τῆς ἰατρικῆς ἐμπειρίας

Arabic title

كتاب جالينوس في التجربة الطبّيّة

Latin title

De experientia medica

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