Maimonides
Regimen of Health
Written work
Regimen of Health
في تدبير الصحة (Fī tadbīr al-ṣiḥḥa)

Written for Sultan al-Afdal, Saladin's son, who suffered from melancholy and digestive complaints. It gives rules for diet, exercise, sleep and above all hygiene of the soul: sadness and anxiety cause illness, and philosophy and music can heal. Translated into Latin as *Regimen sanitatis*, it was the first medical book printed in Florence (1477).
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Maimonides
Obras médicas
The Conscious LibraryObras médicas
El Almendro, 1991
ISBN 9788486077914
Traducción española de tratados médicos.
Other works by Maimonides
- Commentary on the Mishnah (Kitāb al-Sirāj) · 1168
- Introduction to the Mishnah · 1168
- Introduction to Perek Helek: the Thirteen Principles of Faith · 1168
- Eight Chapters · 1168
- Book of the Commandments (Sefer ha-Mitzvot) · 1170
- Mishneh Torah (The Strong Hand) · 1178
- The Guide of the Perplexed · 1190
- Epistle to Yemen · 1172
- Epistle on Martyrdom (Iggeret ha-Shemad) · 1165
- Treatise on Resurrection · 1191
- Letter on Astrology (to the Sages of Montpellier) · 1195
- Letter to Obadiah the Proselyte · 1180
- Letter to Samuel ibn Tibbon · 1199
- Responsa (Teshuvot) · 1204
- Letters (Iggerot) · 1204
- Laws of the Jerusalem Talmud (fragment) · 1170
- Commentaries on the Babylonian Talmud (lost) · 1160
- Treatise on the Art of Logic · 1160
- Treatise on the Calendar · 1158
- Extracts from Galen (The Art of Cure) · 1190
- Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms · 1195
- Medical Aphorisms (Chapters of Moses) · 1190
- Treatise on Hemorrhoids · 1190
- Treatise on Cohabitation · 1190
- Treatise on Asthma · 1190
- Treatise on Poisons and Their Antidotes · 1199
- On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them · 1200
- Glossary of Drug Names · 1200
- Chapters on Happiness (spurious)
- Treatise on Unity (doubtful)
- Oath and Prayer of the Physician (spurious) · 1793
- Ethical Will to his Son (spurious)
- Maimonides (Joel L. Kraemer) · 2008
- Maimonides: Life and Thought (Moshe Halbertal) · 2009
Sources
- Bos, Gerrit (ed. y trad.). Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms: A Parallel Arabic-English Edition (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides). Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2004–2017.
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