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.
127/268 page 115
![[Fom. 29.] Take of White Figs, to the number of five, Stoned Raisins, ten niithkals,' Lac, washed and cleansed from its stalks, five drachms. Gum Tragacanth, cleansed, two mithkals. Saffron, five mithkals j Boil them in three pints of water until only one pint remains; let the patient drink one third of a pint every day for three days ; if GOD permit.” (53.) I have found the peculiar symptoms of the Small-Pox^ to be, a continued fever, pain in the throat, and, in the beginning of the fever, pain in the hack; the patient lies on his back, moves his feet up and down, is rest- less, and disturbed. You must be cautious as to blood-letting, and the circumstances under which you employ it.^ (53.) Georgius'* says :■—The Measles arise from blood with which is mixed a great quantity of yellow bile,® and the Small- Pox from gross blood mixed with much humidity; and there- fore the latter disease is moist, and the former dry. They occur for the most part in the autumn, when there is no north wind, nor any rain,® but the am is turbid, dusty, and obscure, with continued south winds. The symptoms are these : a continued fever,'^ head-ache, pain in the back, heaviness of the head, red- ness of the eyes, pain in the throat and chest, dryness of the mouth, thick spittle, itching of the nose and sneezing, fulness of the face, difficulty of breathing, nausea, want of appetite, stretching and uneasiness, and starting in the sleep. The best and most salutary crisis that can take place in these diseases is bleeding at the nose®. When the Measles and Small-Pox are of a violet or black colour,® and they sometimes p. 237. ■ The mithMl is an Araliic weight equal to about a drachm and a half: but see below, Note N. See above, §27, and below, § 53. ^ The Translator is rather in doubt as to the meaning of this last clause. The Latin translation is, “ Et debes esse satis sollicitus, et bene praemeditari in flebotomia et ejus circumstantiis.” '* See below. Note GG. ’ See above. Chap. iii. § 2 ; and compare § 11, and Chap. xiii. § 3. ® The Latin Translation has, “ et est pluviosus,” but the sense of the Arabic is ju-st the contrary. See above. Chap. ii. § 5 ; and Cont. § 18. ’’ See above, § 52, and below, § 71. ® See below, $ 57.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21301943_0127.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
