ABSTRACT
During the latter part of the Mahomedan Period, the Arabs embraced the study of medicine with great ardour and translated into Arabic nearly all the available Greek treatises. The study of anatomy, however, was prohibited, so that anatomical dissections were not practised by the Mahomedans and they were obliged to rely on the anatomical descriptions of Galen, and succeeded in increasing the errors of the originals by inaccurate translations.
