Lucien Leclerc - Histoire de la médecine arabe 1876 archive

Nicholas Lucien Leclerc (

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, 1816-Ville-sur-Illon, 1893) was a French

military doctor The term military medicine has a number of potential connotations. It may mean: *A medical specialty, specifically a branch of occupational medicine attending to the medical risks and needs (both preventive and interventional) of sold ...

, translator, and influential early western historian of

medicine in the medieval Islamic world In the history of medicine, "Islamic medicine" is the science of medicine developed in the Middle East, and usually written in Arabic, the ''lingua franca'' of Islamic civilization. Islamic medicine adopted, systematized and developed the medi ...

. He was an assistant military surgeon in

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from 1840-1844. His ''Histoire de la médecine arabe'' (Paris, 1876) was one of the first major histories of Arabic medicine, but has subsequently been superseded in many areas.Aldo Mieli ''La Science Arabe'' 1970- Page 293 "Naturellement il s'agit d'histoires composées par des personnes qui pouvaient directement puiser aux sources. Elles sont: Lucien Leclerc, Histoire de la médecine arabe. Deux tomes. Paris, 1876. Cette œuvre, excellente en elle-même, et d'importance fondamentale, n'est pas très agréable pour une lecture courante, et se ressent du manque de"

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1816 births 1893 deaths French orientalists French Arabists French male non-fiction writers {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub