Title-page woodcut from the first printed edition of the collected works of Isaac Israeli, which includes the tract on fevers. The image depicts an impossible meeting of Isaac with his eleventh century commentators Constantine the African and Ibn Abi al-Rijal. Published 1515. Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (c. 832 – c. 932), also known as Isaac Israeli the Elder and Isaac Judaeus, was one of the foremost Jewish physicians and philosophers living in the Arab world of his time.


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