Download or read book Medieval Pharmacotherapy - Continuity and Change written by Helena Paavilainen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-24 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of medical drug therapy in medieval times is an interplay between tradition and innovation. This book tracks the changes in drug recommendations from the Arabic texts of Ibn Sīnā to Latin medical scholasticism, demonstrating their essential rationality.