Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London / [compiled] by Stefan Strelcyn.

  • Stefan Strelcyn
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[1972]
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Credit: Catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine in London / [compiled] by Stefan Strelcyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the use of this term with the meaning of tanner in Gondar, but knows it in Shoa.—Jfoseph] Tfubiana] gives: iron-worker -dd^- » 4r£V' in Godjam (informant: Abba Girom Gabra Muse).—The term designates in God jam weavers, blacksmith . Etymology : ddbbdl ansa ^--ftA' h/ti • who takes away burdens ; originally porter (informant: Ato Mangostu). —T.E. proposes to translate workers who pitch the royal tent «) .— daban ansa is attested in the Chronicle of King Susenyos (Tom. i, ch. lviii, 1. 202) among names of peoples (seme, come, and gafat)'. KBT, 1097 * black- smith '; TWA, 214 ' workers, blacksmith '. ddbbas &nft « XI, 4 ' a kind of genius supposed to inhabit places where there are beer and hydromel', Baeteman, col. 905 ; ' . . . when there is no hydromel, one believes that this genius starts to be malicious and causes illness; he does not abandon his post as long as the house exists; thirsty, he become malicious, can be seen but not touched, causes diseases and sometimes even kills ', Guidi, col. 670. Another explanation is given by Parkyns, see Worrell, in, 139. dagamyana ed§ &p9°fi * bb « VII, 3 £ magicians who make incantations using wood ', cf. Strelcyn, Prieres, 342, s.v. dagami. dam £9° « I, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (wdhzata dam aWhtf-f* : £9° :); II, 2; IV, 3, 4; VI, 4 ; XV, 1,4' blood, haemorrhage ', especially ' vaginal haemorrhage ' causing spontaneous abortion, cf. Griaule, LR, §§ xc-xci and cxviii ; Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 528-33 (TT 1208-25). dask s XII, 1; XVI, 6—name of a devil, cf. Worrell, in, 138, and Strelcyn, Prieres, 334, and p. 44, n. 1, where the following information is quoted from a MDD card concerning MS Eth. 606 from the BN: ' ganen of the noon [see below, ganena qatdr]. Climbs on the shoulders and presses down heavily. Swells the feet. All the body is heavy. The feet are heavy. No other symptoms . . . '. Informant, aldqa Gassasa. For details concerning the cult of dask in the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries in Ethiopia, we find a very rich documentation in Samuel de Dabra Viagag, 8, 10 et passim. ddddq ' XI, 2, 4; XII, 1 ' accident, sudden disease ', cf. Worrell, in, 133 ; Strelcyn, Prieres, 335. KBT, 1138, gives more details : \ mg; : an] \ co^9° '■ o°p^ n '{era [see below], malarial fever, or magganna [see below] '. The first of the two terms given for malaria (nddat, see below) is the general one, the second, waba, seems to be used mostly in Shoa, cf. Guidi, col. 578. ddfsnt P. ^V'/ 'l- i X, 3 lit. ' obturation, closing ', Guidi, col. 696; Baeteman, col. 930, ^-^V^ s (but transcribed defent [sic]). In TT it occurs in at least two distinct diseases: (1) fh*^ * R^lrfr ' yakuffm ddfdnt 'obturation by smallpox ' (TT 1156), cf. Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 514-15; (2) ' obturation of the womb ', (a) V-ih i •. f^y^ci ' ' [Prescription] for the obtura- tion [of the womb] which makes [the woman] sterile ', see MS D, ch. 130, I, (6) A^T^ s f&Q'ifr • e [Prescription] for syphilis, for the obturation [of