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
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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.

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    tules liave already come out on him, there will not appear a tenth. The mode of preparing it is as follows :— p. 72. [Fom. 4.] Take of the best old Vinegar depurated, three pints, Acid Poinegi'anate juice, Acid Juice of Citrons, Juice of unripe Grapes, Juice of warted-leaved Rhubarb, Expressed juice of Syrian white Mulberries, Infusion of Sumach, and of Berberries, of each one pint, Expressed juice of Lettuce, Expressed juice of TaiTagon, of each one quarter of a pint. Decoction of Jujubes, Infusion of Lentiles, of each one pint and and a half; Mix them all together, add to them three pounds of sugar, and hod the whole; then take half a pound of tahasheer, and of common camphor, and put them into a clean mortar after they have been well pounded; pour upon them a little of this syrup, hot, and work them quickly with a pestle, until they are dissolved; then mix them with the whole; and continue stirring it from begiifning to end, with a stick of open cane, or vrillow wood, (but cane is preferable,) after having thrown in tahasheer and common camphor, imtil they are perfectly united. This may be used both before the symptoms of the ^ ‘ ' Small-Pox appear, and also after their appearanee, as we shall mention presently. It is likewise proper in all diseases connected with the blood and the yellow bile, in pestilential ulcers, boils, quinsies, and the hke :—for it is useful, with GOD^S permission. (13.) This may in general suffice concerning preservation from the Small-Pox before the coming on of the fever which is attended by the symptoms of it. And by this means the Small-Pox is entirely repelled from one who is in such a con- dition that it can be repelled: and whatever pustules do come out must needs be favorable and few in number. By this means also it is brought about that the change in the blood from the first state into the second should not be effected all at once and in a short time, with ebullition and fermen- tation, which are accompanied by frightful and dangerous accidents, but by little and little, and in a long time, and gradually, by way of ripening, not putrefaction, and without