The Spiritual Physick
Rhazes’ medical works were important source books for Western physicians until the rise of modern medicine in the nineteenth century. His most acclaimed work on human psychology and spirituality was The Spiritual Physic.
The Spiritual Physic of Rhazes, trans. Arthur J. Arberry (London: John Murray, 1950).
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- Translator: Arthur J. Arberry
- Author: Rhazes
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- EDITORIAL NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I: Of the Excellence and Praise of Reason
- CHAPTER II: Of Suppressing and Restraining the Passion, with a Summary of the Views of Plato the Philosopher
- CHAPTER III: Summary Prolegomena to the Detailed Account of Each of the Evil Dispositions of the Soul
- CHAPTER IV: Of How a Man may Discover his Own Vices
- CHAPTER V: Of Carnal Love and Familiarity, with a Summary Account of Pleasure
- CHAPTER VI: Of Conceit
- CHAPTER VII: Of Envy
- CHAPTER VIII: Of Repelling Anger
- CHAPTER IX: Of Casting Away Mendacity
- CHAPTER X: Of Miserliness
- CHAPTER XI: Of Repelling Excessive and Hurtful Anxiety and Worry
- CHAPTER XII: Of Repelling Grief
- CHAPTER XIII: Of Greed
- CHAPTER XIV: Of Drunkenness
- CHAPTER XV: Of Sexual Intercourse
- CHAPTER XVI: Of Excessive Fondness and Trifling, and Ritual
- CHAPTER XVII: Of Earning, Acquiring and Expending
- CHAPTER XVIII: Of the Quest for Worldly Rank and Station
- CHAPTER XIX: Of the Virtuous Life
- CHAPTER XX: Of the Fear of Death
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