On the Properties of Foodstuffs

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"On the Properties of Foodstuffs" is a medical and dietary treatise by the 9th-century physician Hunayn ibn Ishaq that systematically analyzes the health effects and qualities of various foods within the framework of Greco-Arabic medicine.

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instanceOf dietary treatise
medical treatise
medieval Arabic work
aimsTo guide healthy eating
prevent disease through diet
analyzes hot, cold, moist, and dry qualities of foods
associatedWithCity Baghdad NERFINISHED
author Hunayn ibn Ishaq NERFINISHED
authorFlourishedCentury 9th century
countryOfOrigin Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED
culturalContext Abbasid intellectual culture
focusesOn health effects of foods
qualities of foods
framework Galenic dietetics NERFINISHED
humoral pathology
genre dietetic literature
medical literature
historicalPeriod Islamic Golden Age NERFINISHED
includes classification of foods by temperament
discussion of therapeutic uses of foods
influencedBy Galenic medicine NERFINISHED
Hippocratic medicine NERFINISHED
language Arabic
mainSubject dietetics
food
humoral theory
nutrition
medicalTradition Greco-Arabic medicine NERFINISHED
partOf Arabic medical canon NERFINISHED
preservedIn Arabic manuscript tradition
publicationCentury 9th century
relatedField history of medicine
history of nutrition
relatedWorkAuthor Galen NERFINISHED
structure systematic analysis of individual foodstuffs
studiedBy historians of medicine
historians of science
scholars of Islamic studies
usedIn medical education in the medieval Islamic world
writtenByOccupation physician

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