Open Access[Arabic medical literature in the nineteenth century]
Author(s) -
A. Tekretti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
eastern mediterranean health journal/eastern mediterranean health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1687-1634
pISSN - 1020-3397
DOI - 10.26719/1996.2.3.521
Subject(s) - arabic , arabic literature , smallpox , history , medical literature , classics , medical school , medicine , ancient history , medical education , linguistics , philosophy , virology , pathology , vaccination
The first Arabic medical publication was a book on smallpox written by a French author, translated by a Syrian translator and printed in Cairo around the year 1800. A few years later in 1827, a medical school, teaching in Arabic, was opened in Cairo, followed by a similar medical school in Beirut in 1867. The two schools triggered the production of a host of Arabic textbooks, dictionaries and medical journals. Despite the lack of available information, this paper endeavours to review the Arabic medical literature that appeared at the time of these two pioneer schools in the nineteenth century