Publications of
Prof Rabie E Abdel-Halim
On History of Medicine
Welcome to this website containing the full text of history-of-medicine publications of Prof. Rabie E Abdel-Halim, Emeritus Professor of Urology and Kuwait Prize Laureate (2005 - History of Medicine).
Links to the full text publications are distributed on the above listed pages (some are included in more than one category).
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"..It is the person who attains complete knowledge of the achievement of those who came before him who will be able to add original contributions to it..”
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakareyya Al-Razi (Rhazes, 865— 925 AD) (Translated from Arabic by Prof. Rabie E. Abdel-Halim)
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".. We shall not be able to understand our science of to-day (I do not say to use it, but to understand it) if we do not succeed in penetrating its genesis and its evolution..”
George Sarton, (1884-1956)

The beginning of the opening page of a manuscript of a book by Abu'l Hassan Ali Ibn Ridwan Al-Misri (998-1061 ِADِ) (“kitab al nafie fi kaifiaat taalim sinaat al tib”; The book of useful way of teaching medicine).

The prologue page of a manuscript of Kitab Al-Mansouri Fi Al-Tib written by Muhammad Ibn Zakareyya Al Razi (Rhazes, 854-925 AD)

Drawing of the cross section of the Brain and the Eyes made by the 13th century Khalifa ibn Abi Al Mahasin Al Halaby (from Aleppo) in his book Al Kafi Fi Al-Kuhl (The Book of Sufficient Knowledge in Ophthalmology)
The loose feather charcoal drawing on this page is a courtesy of the artist Mrs Khadija Yosef.