The talk will look at the broader topic of Arabic medicine in China, its nature and origins, but more specifically at the important Huihui yaofang, “Muslim Medicinal Recipes”, the remaining sections, about 450 pages in a dense  manuscript, of what was once a 3,400 page text. The surviving fragment, unique in its Arabic-script entries and citation of Galen and other giants of the Arabic medicine tradition, is closely similar to the Arabic hospital manuals of the time used in the Middle East and seems to have been used in connection with Arabic-medicine hospitals known to have existed in Mongol China, although revised several times after Mongol times when the hospital connection  was possibly lost. Prof. Buell is now engaged in producing an edition of this important text based upon a full translation completed in 2008.
Paul is a Mongolist and Turkologist and a specialist in the history to the Mongol Empire with a particular interest in the medical and food exchanges of the period.