De Gradibus (On Degrees)

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De Gradibus (On Degrees) is a pioneering scientific treatise by the 9th-century philosopher Al-Kindi that applies quantitative methods to analyze the strength and effects of medicines.

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instanceOf medical treatise
philosophical work
scientific treatise
addresses calculation of resultant drug effect
relationship between simple and compound drugs
aimsTo predict therapeutic effects of medicines
quantify the intensity of medicinal qualities
alternativeTitle On Degrees
associatedWith Baghdad intellectual milieu
House of Wisdom
surface form: House of Wisdom tradition
author Al-Kindi
centuryOfComposition 9th century
concerns strength and effects of medicines
developsConcept arithmetical calculation of drug strength
degrees of hot, cold, moist, and dry in drugs
epistemicApproach mathematization of natural phenomena
field mathematics
medicine
pharmacology
philosophy of science
genre scholarly treatise
hasImpactOn scholastic discussions of medical quantification
theory of dosage in premodern medicine
historicalContext Islamic Golden Age
influenced later pharmacology
medieval European medicine
medieval Islamic medicine
influencedBy Galenic medicine
Greek medicine
mainTopic degrees of strength of medicines
effects of compound medicines
measurement of drug potency
methodologicalInnovation use of numerical scales for drug qualities
notableFor early application of quantitative methods in medicine
mathematical treatment of compound drugs
systematic theory of drug degrees
originalLanguage Arabic
partOf Al-Kindi's scientific corpus
philosophicalApproach rationalist
philosophicalDiscipline natural philosophy
scientificDiscipline theoretical medicine
title De Gradibus
usesMethod mathematical modeling
quantitative analysis

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