Medical bibliography : A. and B. / by James Atkinson.

  • James Atkinson
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1834
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    1 65 To a person who feels interest enough to dabble, or to go deeper into Arabic, I I should presume that the luminous Expositio Terminorum Arabicorum, of this author, would be valuable. The articles at the head of every book and chapter serve as a I sufficient index to the ensuing pages; but in regard to chapters, I have given the I Reader chapter and verse, literatim verbatim, of this succulent writer; though I doubt that with me, he will consider them—rather queer. AVENZOHAR, ABYMERON, |j Obiit Hegirae, 56 h; after an existence of 135 years—of how many months? Champerius assigns him the date of 114-9, others ll60, or about 1280. How little interesting must time have been in former ages, when it was not worth 1 recording, at least with precision. Avenzohar was named Experimentator, and so might all the South-sea bubbleists. ! His method of preparing medicines, &c. was translated into Hebrew ; and Paravicius i iilso translated it into Latin. i I. et Gregor.~i Fe?ietia7i fol.l'Rectificatio Medicationis et Regiminis. de Forlivio,/ 1490,/ —See Hendreic.—^This book is named Theiseir vel Keisir. ; B. Locatellus, Venet. fol. 1496, Expends Oct. Scoti, lib. vii., Theiseir— H. Surian.—Very scarce. I Ottimus Papieusis fol. 1497, Tlieiseir cum ejiisdem Antidotario et Ayer- rois libro Colliget, per Hieron. Suri- anum. I Ott. Papi, de Luna, ' 1510, Theiseir. (jrregorde Gre-) Venet. fol.'] nM ■ • ^ goriis, jT I Theiseir opus practicum. Penet. fol. 1530, ' Conrad. Gesner, Lugd. 1531, Venet. fol. 1533, Cum Averrlioe. Venet. fol. 1533, Excerpta que ad balneum faciunt. Venet. fol. 1553, Theiseir. Litgd. 8vo. 1561, Theiseir, cum Antidotario et Colliget. ^ G.Pevvha.shms, Venet. foL 1576, De Febribus liber. Venet. fol. 1583, A venzoar ab Theiseir almandariat. Tract, de Simplicibus Medicam. MS. Lib. de dccoratione—inter deperdita Bib. Hist. If science, like fruit, be mellowed and perfected by age, and is alone toTje reaped 1 by that old rogue, with a scythe in his hand, Mr. Time, much might be expected • from the veteran Avenzohar. Diuterna praxi, multorumque annorum experientia, ' he must have learn't many tricks, and to some purpose. The volume styled Theiseir, as Kestner observes, dignum est lectii, ut ut barbare sit versum, et raro haberi possit. He alludes to the first translations, and not to the later editions. It consists of three books; the first, De Morbis Capitis et Thoracis; the second, De Morbis Ab- dominis, cutaneis, afFectibusque externis; the third, De Febribus agit; and as this I book was as scarce and difficult to be had, as the Colliget of Averroes, the editions of 11497 and 1501, which contain them both, must have been a great acquisition. It must be a great luxury, to live so long as this venerable man; and I long so to I do, if it were merely to prove that there would be no end to my bibliographical non- «sense.—Vive la bagatelle. It appears odd that in this sense, (I don't mean nonsense) ' an alphabet of only twenty-four letters, should bibliographically set a man so fast, and •© puzzle his brains to get through with it. I
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