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Amriitf an-naft). Drawing directly on his experience in the 'A<;ludf Hospital in Baghdad, he asserted the holistic view that psychic conditions caused bodily illnesses and vice versa. Consequently, he believed that medical diagnosis and treatment must be directed to both the patient's mind and body. D. 114 This criticism did not, however, entail a repudiation of the underlying humoral theory, but it did temper the influence of the Dogmatists, 115 such as Ibn Ri<;lwan. 116 The rigidity of the Galenic tradition in Islamic medicine was not J without merit.
H. Ackerknecht, "Anti-contagionism between 1821 and 1867," BHM 22 (1948):562-593 for the former, and Charles Creighton, A History ofEpidemics in Britain, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1891-1894)for the latter. Regarding the reissue of Creighton's History (London, 1965), seeR. S. Roberts, "Epidemics and Social History," Medical History 12 (1968):305-316. ~ ••Hippocrates, Airs, Waters and Places and Epidemics I and Ill. ian medicine. Saunders (The Transitions, p. 33) has asserted: "The essential principle behind putrefaction as conceived by the Ancient Egyptians had definite relations to the conceptions of the nature of odor and thus to views on the particulate nature of matter on the one hand, and the nature of contagion on the other ....
Hamameh, "Medical Education and Practice in Medieval Islam/' pp. 39-71; ide~, "The Physician and the Health Profession in Medieval Islam," Bulletin ofthe New York AcademyofMedicine47 (1971): 1088-1110; idem, "Some Aspects of Medical Practices," pp. 15-31; Gary Leiser, "Medical Education in Islamic Lands from the Seventh to the Fourteenth Century" journal of the History ofMedicine and Allied Scit:nces, 38 (1983):48-75-an important revision of traditional views; E. G. ); Cyril Elgood, A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate (Cambridge, 1951), pp.