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.

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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    (7.) The following composition is very beneficial and useful at several times :— [i^’orm. 8.]' Take of Red Roses, four drachms, p. 102. Peeled Lentiles, nine drachms. Yellow Figs, to the number of ten. Of Gum Tragacanth, tliree drachms. White Raisins, stoned, ten drachms. Lac, cleared from its stalks and washed, three drachms. Sweet Fennel Seed, Smallage Seed, of each five drachms; Boil all these in two pints of water until it is reduced to one pint and a half; and give the patient half a pint of it, with half a scruple of saffron, two or three times, as may be necessary.® (8.) We shall now speak of those parts of the body of ^ ' which it is necessary to take care. ' Two very similar formulae are given by Synesius, Be Febr. capp. 9, 10. pp. 294, 296. See also below. Form. 21.