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.

    25/34 (page 49)
    For prescriptions, see Griaule, LR, §§ xi-xii; Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 770-1 (index to MS D, oh. 61). mdhan s XVII, 7, 34 ' sterile woman', cf. Griaule, LR, §§ cxxvi-cxxix, and TT 1179-97 in Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 522-5; Rodinson, 38, 50, § 117. mdnfds rdkus a»!r&ti clbfi • II, 8 ; VII, 10 ; VIII, 2 ; X, 2 c impure spirit'; pi. mdnafdst rdhusan ^TUft^ ch*<V> * V, 1; VIII, 2 ; XII, 1, cf. Strelcyn, Prieres, 329. mdnso </»7iV VI, 1 ' a disease which recurs attacking the same person, like intermittent fever, rheumatism, migraine, etc.', Guidi, col. 87 ; KBT 110; Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 88. mdqdwze «w»4»<d«h, .• XI, 2, cf. mdqawze, name of a ' king of devils ' (?), Worrell, in, 129; Strelcyn, Prieres, 329. For details concerning the cult of this demon (considered as a kind of gudale, see above) in the fourteenth-fifteenth centuries in Ethiopia, see Samuel de Dabra Wagag, p. 17, 1. 17 ; p. 26, 1. 16 (mdqwazya); p. 28, 1. 20 and note; p. 29, 1. 12 (mdqwdZdy), p. 23, 11. 15, 20, and p. 24, 1. 10 (mdhozdy). maqtul aofy'kfa s in 'aynd maqtul s 0»ty'U(\ : XI, 2 ' the [evil] eye of the murderer '. maqtul is probably for mdqtdl, cf. Dillmann, col. 441, f°<lH;A «; KWK, 815 ; see also qdtdlay in Worrell, ill, 132. mdsdryan 0°(\C?*} * VII, 3 £ sorcerers, magicians ', see below : sabd' mdsdryan. marmdg «cu£« - XII, 1 unidentified, cf. Worrell, in, 141. mod 9°^ s XII, 1 c 9°^fr •• (Shoa 9°^ lit. blow ) (1) a kind of violent disease with fever which kills in a short time; according to the part of the body affected, it is called e.g. f s — [yasamba —] lung attack; f A'ft ' — [ydhbb —] heart attack, etc.; (2) f ' — [ydbahdr —] a kind of disease of the spleen which attacks swimmers; (3) fab * — [ras —] headache (it is a serious illness)', Guidi, col. 82. Also Baeteman, col. 91: £ ^-Th * (or 9°^ ') attack, sudden and violent disease ', and TWA, 47. But in Go'oz we have the term ^^Ufr * mdihat 1 phantasm, fantasy, spectre ', Dillmann, col. 183 ; Gabriele da Maggiora, 109 ; KWK, 615 (also rt£l<i,<E ' thCifr s ' Satanic forgery'). The sdwasdw translates this term by agandnt [see above, ganen], Dillmann, ibid. The confusion between Go'oz mdihat > mdtat and the Amh. mdtat from matta ' to strike, to hit' seems quite ancient. KWK, 615, indicates for the Go'oz mdthat amongst others the meanings ' mdtat, moc'. On the other hand, the term mdthat is used also in Amh.: ' phantasm, spectre, magic ', Guidi, col. 83; ' ganen TWA, 47, cf. Griaule, LR, 77 (but mdtat in §§ lxvi-lxviii), but Guidi, SuppL, col. 33, gives also mdtfat 9°H*hH* * ' apoplectic stroke, sunstroke ', cf. also Worrell, in, 132 (mdfat) and 133 (mdd); Strelcyn, Prieres (mdc and mdtat), 329. For prescriptions against mdd, see TT 1003-10 (Strelcyn, Medecine, i, 468-71). mdsdro 9°Ha ' XVII, 32 e scrofula ', cf. prescriptions in Griaule, LR, § lxxxii, and in TT 902 ff. (Strelcyn, Medecine, I, 430 ft, p. 431, n. 2, p. 439, n. 1); Rodinson, p. 37, n. 5. VOL. XXXV. PART 1. 4