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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    fera s IX, 13; X, 3 ; XI, 2 ; XII, 1 ' serious and contagious disease Guidi, col. 872; Worrell, in, 133; Strelcyn, Prieres, 336; Medecine, I, p. 495, n. 14 and prescriptions (TT 1079-89), pp. 484-91. f9gen f£l'} i XII, 1. Name of a population frequently encountered in Ethiopian magical texts; see Strelcyn, Prieres, 349 giving the results of an inquiry concerning this name. fdlsdt «II, 8; VI, 1; VII, 6,10 ; VIII, 3 ; IX, 13 ; X, 3 ; XI, 2 ; XII, 1; ' XVII, 31; fdlsdtd rds XVII, 32, 34, 36 ' migraine ', cf. Worrell, in, 136; Strelcyn, Prieres, 336. Quoted many times in TD (see Strelcyn, Medecine, i, 105 ff.) and in TT (ibid., 200-1); MS D of TT uses the term ?&ti ■ ydras mdtat as a synonym. fdrqdqat Qcfy^fr « II, 8; XVII, 39. Name of a disease of the womb, occurring once in TT, (MS C, ch. 11, 34). Seems to be a synonym of the disease called in the same MS in ch. 11, 33 png.£ « ft^ft^'lh * ydbagdd sdqdssdqat (the tentative translation given in Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 755—' maladie du bas ventre'—has probably to be replaced by ' piercing pain in the womb'). The fdrqdqat is included in the chapter of ydbagdd Sdqdssdqat in the index of MS C ; see also TT 1271 (Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 544-5). This disease is a consequence of the sotdlay [see below], cf. fk'-Mje- fl;J - %IL * Hj^^T * JZ-rt'f'rt^^A « TT, MS D, ch. 144, 2. ganen pVi * II, 8; VIII, 3; X, 3 ' devil, demon ', pi. agandnt hpTi-'i- * I, 2; III, 1,2; IV, 2; V, 1, 3, 6; VI, 1, 6; VII, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10; VIII, 1, 7, 14; IX, 4, 8, 14 ; X, 1 {a, b, c); XI, 1,2,; XII, 1; XIII, 3 ; XV, 2 ; XVI, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 ; XVII, 31. Often qualified as agandnt sdivagan ' malicious agandnt'; also as aganont dkuyan ' bad agandnt' XVI, 2. Strelcyn, Prieres, 335; Rodinson, 60-2 et passim, see index, 192. 'aynd agandnt hpH^ •• ' the [evil] eye of the agandnt' XIII, 3. ganend qdtdr pVi ' i'frc * III, 1; XI, 2, 4; XVII, 31 ; ganen zaqdtdr XII, 1 'the demon of the noon', Dillmann, col. 1177; Worrell, m, 133 (who quotes also an oral explanation given to him by Mrs. Elsie Winqvist in Stockholm: ' Gallenfieberanfall infolge von Uberlastung des Magens zu Mittag, am Schlusse des Fastens '); Strelcyn, Prieres, 335. gudale « XII, 1. Name of a devil or an idol, cf. Worrell, m, 136 ; Strelcyn, Prieres, 335, but also the name of a population feared as magicians, ibid., 351. For details concerning the cult of gudale (V and 7*) in the fourteenth- fifteenth centuries in Ethiopia, see Samuel de Dabra Wagag, p. 17, 1. 7 et passim. gwdrle nr-CPu * in Ipmamd gwdrce f1\llt/» -}^c% ' XVII, 32 'sore throat', TT 328-37 in Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 258-61; Rodinson, 49. gwdSdmt, gusdmt h/'J'l- -hii^ * II, 8 ; VI, 1; VII, 6 ; IX, 13 ; XI, 2, 4 ; XII, 1; XV, 5 ' chronic pleurisy with cough ', cf. Guidi, col. 736 ; Strelcyn, Prieres, 335. See prescriptions, TT 1011-12, in Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 470-71. gdrba ddive, see ydgdrba ddwe.