The Concept of Old Age in Medieval Arabic Medicine

Prof. Dr. Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra

Citation: Prof. Dr. Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, "The Concept of Old Age in Medieval Arabic Medicine", Universal Library of Arts and Humanities, Volume 03, Issue 01.

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Abstract

The 884th Arabic manuscript from the Library of El Escorial contains in the folios 136r., 136v. and 137r. a brief discourse on the four ages of human beings that includes an interesting definition of old age, according to medieval scientific knowledge among the Arabs. These pages, no studied until now, belong to an anonymous treatise written by an unidentified author to date, possibly ?unayn Ibn Is?aq (Johannitius) or Ibn Rushd (Averroes). This article deals with this subject and encloses an English translation of some fragments from the original text in Arabic.


Keywords: Old Age. Medieval Arabic Science. Geriatrics. Gerontology. History of Medicine. The 884th Arabic manuscript of El Escorial.

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