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

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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$Avork Avill be found, it is hoped, more accurate and complete than any that has hitherto appeared. *1498. fol. Venetiis, per Simonem Papiensem, dictum Bevilaquam. A Latin translation by Giorgio Valla, in a volume containing treatises by several other authors. Title: “ Georgio Valla Placcntino Interi)rete. Hocin volumine hec (sic) continentur: Nicephori Logica; &c. &c. Rhazes de Pestilentia,” &c. &c. Translated from the Greek. *1528. 4to. Parishs, apud Simonem Siluium. A reprint of Valla’s Latin translation, together with a work by Alessandro Benedetto. Title: “ Rhazes Philosophus de Ratione curandi Pestilentiam e Graeco in Latinu versus per Georgium Vallam Placentinum. Item Alexander Benedictus Veronesis Physicns de Pestilent! Febre.” 1529. 8vo. Parishs. [Haller.] *1529. small 8vo. Basileae, in sedibus Audrem Cratandri. A reprint of Valla’s Latin translation, together with a work by Michael Psellus. Title: “ Pselli de Victus Ratione ad Constantimnn Imperatorem libri ii. Rhazae, cognomento Experimentatoris, de Pestilentia Liber. Georgio Valla Placentino Interprete,” &c. &c. *1544. fol. Basileae, in ofBcina Henrichi (sic) Petri. A reprint of Valla’s Latin translation, together with several other works by Rhazes. Title : “ Abubetri Rhazae Maomethi, ob Usum Experientiamque multiplicem, et ob certissimas exDemonstrationibus logicis lndicationes,ad omnesprajterNaturam AfFectus, atq: etiam propter Remediorum uberrimam Materiam, summi Medici Opera exquisitiora, quibus nihil utilius ad Actus practicos extat, omnia enim penitus qua; habet ant Hippocrates obscuriora, aut Galenus fusiora, fidelissime doctissiraeq: exponit, et in Lucem profert. PerGerardum Toletanum Medicum Cremonensem, AndreamVesalium Bruxellensem,Albanum TorinumVitoduranum, Latinitate donata, ac jam primum quam castigatissime ad vetustum Codicem snmmo Studio collata & restaurata, sic ut a Medicina; Candidatis intelligi pos- sint,” &c. &c. *1548. fol. Lutetiae [Paris.] ex officina Rob. Stephani, Typographi Regh, typis Regiis. In Greek, together with Ale.xander Trallianus. Title: “ ’AXe^dvSpov TpaWuttfov ’\arpov SvoKaiStKa. 'PaS^rj Aoyog mpl AoiptKrjgani) Tijg 'Ssvpwv AiaXsK- Tov IKtXXpviaOtig. Alexandri Tralliani Medici Lib. xii. Rhazae de Pestilentia LibcUus ex Syrorum Lingua in Grmcam translatns. Jacobi Gonpyli in eosdem Castigationes. Ex Bibliotheca Regia.” Very beautifully printed, and not very often met with. It contains only the Greek text, with a few pages of notes at the end of the volume. An asterisk is prefixed to those editions which have been actually seen cither l>y the Translator or by one of his friends. In other cases the author is mentioned on whose autliority the existence of the edition is prcsuincd.$