A treatise on the small-pox and measles / by Abú Becr Mohammed ibn Zacaríyá ar-Rází (commonly called Rhazes) ; translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill.
- Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya, 865?-925?, 865?-925?
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the small-pox and measles / by Abú Becr Mohammed ibn Zacaríyá ar-Rází (commonly called Rhazes) ; translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![(23.) The following medicine is useful for bringing * ^ out the Small-Pox d— \_Form. 21.] Take of Figs to the number of five, Raisins, seven drachms,. Peeled Lentiles, Lac, of each three drachms. Gum Tragacanth, Sweet Fennel Seed, of each two drachms; Boil them in a pint and a half of water. This medicine hastens the eruption of the Small-Pox, and pre- vents palpitation of the heart, and heat in the chest, and neighbouring parts. (24.) Figs have the property of bringing out the Small-Pox from the interior. (25.) From the “Liber Liberationis,^^ (or “the Success- ful ?”): 2—“ A medicine which renders the eruption of the Small-Pox easy, and should be given at the commencement of the disease, as soon as the pustules begin to appear;— \_Form. 22.] Take of large White Figs to the number of five. Peeled Lentiles, seven drachms ; BoU them in a pint and a half of water until only a quarter of a pint remains; then mix in it one quarter of a drachm of Saffron, and let the patient drink it fasting, and at bed time.” 224 Masawaih^ says :—“ When you see the boils'* tawny colonred, and spread all over the body, and the patient moans and is low-spirited, and his abdomen is inflated and resonant like a drum, it is a fatal sign.^^ (27.) He also says :—“ The symptoms of the Small-Pox are ' See above. Form. 8, and below. Form. 29. * In the Arabic MS. (p. 88.1. 21.) the word is , which should perhaps be Munjih. There is a medical treatise with this title in the Bodleian Library (A/ar«A, 173.), but it is probably the work of an author postei'ior to Rhazes. It is attributed either to Abu Sa’id Ibn Ibrahim As-Siklf, or to Ibn Baitar. See Uri, Fatal. MSS. Orient. Biblioth. Bodl., p. 134, $ 564; Nicoll and Pusey, Catal. MSS. Arab. p. 586. “ See below. Note DD.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21301943_0119.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
