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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$p. 122. {^Forrn 9.] Take of Sweet Almonds peeled, one part, Gourd Seed, two parts. White Sugar Candy, three parts. Mucilage of Fleawort Seed, a sufficient quantity; Make it into a linctus.* If the bowels be relaxed let the Hnctus be made of gum Arabic^ peeled almonds, the seed of serpent cucumber, and wbeat-starcb, mixed up with mucilage of quince seeds. (6.) In the next place we must take care of the joints, for there often comes out upon these a number of very bad pus- tules, which corrupt them to such a degree that the bones, ligaments, and tendons be bare. Hasten, therefore, as soon as you see any symptoms of the Small-Pox, and especially if they are violent and excessive, and the pustules filled with fluid, hasten to attend to the joints, and bathe them with sanders, red horn poppy, Armenian bole, roses, common camphor, idnegar, and rose-water; but in the bathing do not go much be- ^ yond the joints. If the pustules that come out are veiy large, then open them at once, and let out the matter; and do not put off this operation, for delay is very dangerous. (7.) After this you should take care of the nose and the ear, that there may not be in them a great quantity of pustules; for this is hurtful to the patient; and an eruption in the in- ternal part of the ear is clearly dangerous. Apply, therefore, to the nose daily warm oil of roses Avith common camphor dis- solved in it: and drop into the inner ear warm red vinegar, mixed with a collyrium^ of red horn poppy, or msot, and then put in a piece of cotton; and let this be done two or three times a day. (8.) Lastly, if a severe pain arises in the soles of the feet,^ then take care to anoint them with tepid oil, and foment them 126 water and cotton. If this does not abate the ’ pain, nor facilitate the eruption of the pustules, then heat up peeled sesamum with milk; anoint Avith it, bind it on with a cloth, and so leave it upon the part all night; then bathe the foot in warm water, and repeat the same again. Or bruise ' See above, Note (’), p. 53. ■ Shidf. See above, Note (*), p. 52. ’ See below, Divis. $ 10.$