Exceptional as a medieval pediatric handbook, De curis puerorum is edited here in Latin and Hebrew translations of al-Rāzī's lost Arabic original; an English version and commentary reveal contemporary beliefs about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of many children's diseases.

Gerrit Bos, Ph.D . (1989), Free University Amsterdam, is Professor (emeritus), Martin Buber Institute, University of Cologne. He is widely published in the field of medieval Jewish-Islamic medicine, and is the editor of the medical works of Maimonides (BYU Press).
Michael McVaugh, Ph.D. (1965), Princeton University, is Wells Professor of History (emeritus) at the University of North Carolina. He has published widely on medieval European medicine, and is an editor of the Latin medical writings of Arnau de Vilanova.