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Open Journal of Dentistry and Oral Medicine(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 8(1), pp. 7 - 10
DOI: 10.13189/ojdom.2020.080102
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Medieval Recipes about Toothpastes by Abulcasis
Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra *
Department of Philology, University of Almeria, Spain
ABSTRACT
Abulcasis Al-Zahr膩w墨 (c.936-c.1013) is a very important physician of Al-Andalus, besides an eminent surgeon, the first one of Medieval Islam. His main work, titled Kit膩b al-Ta峁墨f (Book of medical arrangement), contains in its 19th treatise, which deals with cosmetics and drugs for health and embellishment of body, interesting recipes of a great value to the diverse scientific fields, such as the pharmacology, dentistry, dermatology, cosmetics and aesthetic medicine. Reading this handbook allows to reconstruct the aesthetic canons of Arab society in the late 10th and early 11th centuries, as well as indicates the interest showed by this society in hygiene, beauty, ornament and perfume, and how these factors are closely connected to body health. This article is an approach to the study of the treatise above mentioned, and includes the translation from Arabic to English of some recipes about toothpastes, according to the 5774th Arab manuscript of the National Library at Paris. The pages translated in this article exemplify the high level achieved by Arab scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages, and certify the importance of Abulcasis Al-Zahr膩w墨 in the history of Islamic science. His work Kit膩b al-Ta峁墨f is in a high-ranking place within surgery, medicine and pharmacology of Al-Andalus. For the influence exercised in Europe until the early 17th century, among other reasons, Abulcasis has a very relevant position in the history of both universal culture and science.
KEYWORDS
Abulcasis Al-Zahr膩w墨, Kit膩b al-Ta峁墨f, Medieval Arabic Science, History of Medicine, History of Dentistry, Aesthetic Medicine
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[1] Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra , "Medieval Recipes about Toothpastes by Abulcasis," Open Journal of Dentistry and Oral Medicine(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 7 - 10, 2020. DOI: 10.13189/ojdom.2020.080102.
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Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra (2020). Medieval Recipes about Toothpastes by Abulcasis. Open Journal of Dentistry and Oral Medicine(CEASE PUBLICATION), 8(1), 7 - 10. DOI: 10.13189/ojdom.2020.080102.