Kept Alive in Arabic
Rufus's Case Histories
حكايات المرضى لروفس
A record of cases kept by a Greek physician of the 1st century, describing his patients one by one: their complaints, his treatment, and how they fared. Its Greek original is lost and it survives in Arabic, published by Manfred Ullmann in 1978. Arab physicians held Rufus in high regard and seem to have translated all his works.
- Author
- Rufus of Ephesus (c. AD 100)
- Field
- Medicine
- What Arabic kept
- His record of patients
- Arabic title
- حكايات المرضى
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Sources
- Wikipedia, «Rufus of Ephesus»: «some of his works survive only in Arabic… Case histories (in Arabic)»
- M. Ullmann, Rufus von Ephesos: Krankenjournale (Wiesbaden, 1978)
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