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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. xxxiii, 161 pages, map : 24 cm. Parallel Arabic text and English translation.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Summary:A witty satire of the medical profession The Doctors' Dinner Party is an eleventh-century satire in the form of a novella, set in a medical milieu. A young doctor from out of town is invited to dinner with a group of older medical men, whose conversation reveals their incompetence. Written by the accomplished physician Ibn Butlan, the work satirizes the hypocrisy of quack doctors while displaying Ibn Butlan's own deep technical knowledge of medical practice, including surgery, blood-letting, and medicines. He also makes reference to the great thinkers and physicians of the ancient world, including Hippocrates, Galen, and Socrates. Combining literary parody with social satire, the book is richly textured and carefully organized: in addition to the use of the question-and-answer format associated with technical literature, it is replete with verse and subtexts that hint at the infatuation of the elderly practitioners with their young guest. The Doctors' Dinner Party is an entertaining read in which the author skewers the pretensions of the physicians around the table. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.…

Hardcover. First American Edition. Small Quarto, viii, 9-368 pages plus three plates. In Good minus condition. Bound in full leather with gilt fillets and red label bearing gilt titling to spine. Spine has material loss to tail exposing the quires, missing headcap, and chipping, cracking, and rubbing to leather throughout. Boards have bumping to corners, shelfwear to edges, chipping, cracking, and rubbing to leather throughout, and splitting to joints leaving boards only held on by their sewing guides; rear board has a dent to top edge. Text block has age-toning and soiling to edges; previous owner's label to verso of front free endpaper, dampstaining to edges of endpapers and margins of leaves closest to them, creases and/or chipping to corners of some leaves, tear to inner edge of Plate 2 (illustration unaffected,) and toning, light staining, and light foxing throughout; pages 139-142 plus Plate 3 are disbound but tipped-in. Shelved in Room A octavo overflow. The Lectures of Boyer Upon Diseases of the Bones is a foundational medical treatise compiling the surgical lectures of French surgeon Alexis Boyer (1757-1833, late Imperial Family Surgeon to Napoleon) into a systematic guide on bone pathology, fractures, and orthopedic procedures. As one of the earliest comprehensive texts dedicated exclusively to bone disorders, its release played a landmark role in introducing advanced European surgical standards and formal orthopedic education to early American medicine. 1415787. Special Collections - Upstairs.…