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By Wilbur A. Smith
Dr. Ben Kazin is a superb archeologist. Louren Sturvesant is wealthy, impulsive, and bodily implementing, every little thing Ben isn't really. Now, the to men—friends, opponents and partner—are trying to find the mythical misplaced urban of Opet, equipped by means of an Egyptian tradition that reached Africa thousand years in the past, then vanished completely.
For Ben, the excursion is an opportunity to end up a arguable thesis. For Louren, it's a probability to spend millions—and make all of it again in gold and glory. yet what awaits them is an outstanding discovery, a siege of terror, and an act of betrayal that might tear the 2 males aside and bind them jointly forever...
Hidden underneath water, jungle, and blood-red cliffs is a misplaced international the place males and a gorgeous lady have been stuck in a livid conflict of passions hundreds of thousands years in the past, yet which has began as soon as again...
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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.