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 womb] see MS D, ch. 130, 2, cf. Strelcyn, ibid., index to MS D, pp. 776-7. Note in the two last cases the form gr^fr ddfnat. dini f\x '•, f- dinit written probably by mistake danit Pftfr s in (aynd dini, 'aynci dinit XIII, 3. Name of an evil spirit, cf. dino Pu<? : in Strelcyn, Prieres, 335. dobbi F-a. s, f. dobbit P-d^fr « XIII, 3. A kind of sorcerer, cf. Strelcyn, Prieres, 341, 123 ('According to J.Tfubiana] this name is probably a Galla one and designates slanderers, people making evil spells' (provisional note, 11.1.1950)), 348 (c a Galla population (according to Joseph, M.C.'s infor- mant) or Gogot (Gurage) (according to Wabino, another informant of M.C.) '). See Marcel Cohen, fitudes, 7, 21, 69, 72, 91. According to Bruner- Plazikowski (unpublished MS belonging to M.C.) the dobbi are probably Selti. dbd saw 3vfl.£- « <Vf>- XVII, 34 ' madman '. dbd ivdssa h-HX: « XVII, 34 ' the biting of a rabid dog ', cf. prescriptions in Griaule, LP, § lxix, and TT 848-55 (Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 418-19; Rodinson, § 21). ddd siibd h& • Ci'dJx * II, 8 ; dcja sabd' 2\j£ '• A-fl?» •• amharized form VII, 10 ; XII, 1, lit. ' the hand of the man ', a kind of an evil being, cf. Worrell, m, 130; Strelcyn, Prieres, 333, and especially, p. 44, n. 6: ' . . . perhaps it should really be interpreted as * frfld : magical hand '. Prescriptions against this evil (disease) are found in TT, see index to MS C in Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 759-60. We find two other prescriptions in MS D, ch. 116, devoted also to buda [see above]. 'ayna dga sdb^ 0/£V Ci(\h •• XIII, 3, ' the [evil] eye of dgd sabd> '. dnqdrt K):i'Cr « XVII, 36 ' swelling of the neck ; goitre ', cf. Strelcyn, Medecine, i,'42. dskit ftfilvh s 'penis; men's genitals' in: (1) yddskitu ffcfttvfc ■ XVII, 34, lit. ' for the penis ' i.e. ' impotence ', cf. HTM- : ftfiMs • in TT 646-69 (Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 332-9; also Griaule, LP, §§ cxxxvii-cxxxix) ; (2) Idzdhabdtd dskitu MiMlm 7\(\h. U '• XVII, 32 ' for the man whose genitals are swollen ', cf. Griaule, LP, § xcv ; TT 670-5 in Strelcyn, Mede- cine, i, 338-41. dslam htiW ' VII, 3 and dslamawi ^ftWE * ' Muslim ' in 'ayna dslamaivi » KftAa7<E : XIII, 3 ' the [evil] eye of Muslims ', cf. Worrell, in, 131; Strelcyn, Prieres, 340. dzn hiTi i ' ear ' in zdddnqdwd dznu tt&t&ai •• TxllY • 1 for the deaf'. fdlasa d.^ * II, 8; X, 3 ' Falasha, the Jews of Ethiopia cf. Worrell, in, 137 ; Strelcyn, Prieres, 349. In MS D of TT a special chapter (104) is devoted to the fdlasa, Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 774-5. A prescription given by MSS ACD of TT (1137), Medecine, I, 508-9, names the fdlasa together with the ddd adbd [see above]. Another prescription found in MS D (ch. 116 bis 5) mentions the fdlasa together with the buda [see above]. fdnsasa <cm * XVII, 34 ' smallpox ', see Strelcyn, ' Note sur les noms de la variole \