In this new page on the History of Pediatrics, we start with 8 German-language articles published in “Der Kinderarzt” between 1983 and 1991, the outcome of a joint work on history of pediatrics, pediatric surgery and social pediatrics by Abdel-Halim R E and Jan MY based on their study and German translation of the book "Risaalah fi Siyasat as-Sibyan wa Tadbirihim" (Infant and child care and treatment) by ibn Al-Jazzar (Latinized as Algizar) who lived in Qairawan (now in Tunisia) between 895 and 980 AD. The book is the first independent and complete work on paediatrics and child care.
In the study of this 22-chaptered book, the authors relied upon another authentic manuscript of the work which was not available to Mohammad al-Habib al-Haila, who first edited the book in 1968. This has helped to further document, complete and supplement the published edition of this important work.
The first of those 8 papers included an introduction about ibn Al-Jazzar's era and its influence on Medieval European schools of medicine. Paper No. 2 included the biography of ibn al-Jazzar as well as a description of his book; while papers No. 3-8 included the serialized German translation of the whole book together with pictures of all the original manuscript’s pages.
Please click on the following links to get the PDF file of each of those articles. The files are large and may take some time to load:
