Rare Text Survives Millennium

Rare Text Survives Millennium

From mystery to MRI's, mankind's basis for medical knowledge has come far in the last 1000 years." UABís Reynolds Historical Library has a treasure trove of medical texts that have survived the ages, including a copy of the rare Rhazes ìNinth Book of the Alí-Mansuri,î currently being restored. ìRhazes, who died in 930 AD, was the leading medical figure of his time,î says Faye Harkins, library curatorial assistant. ìFor centuries, from the close of the first millennium until long after the Renaissance, this book was the worldís leading source of therapeutic knowledge.î The library holds one of only five known Hebrew copies of the work, translated in the mid-14th century, and other fascinating works, including the first practical battlefield surgical manual, written in Germany in 1517.

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