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.
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![p. 142. CHAPTER XI. Of those things which remove the marks of the Small-Pox. The marks of the Small-Pox are of two sorts; viz. either in the eye, or on the rest of the body. I. (2.) In the eye the part on which the Small-Pox broke out is covered with an opaque whiteness, as we have already mentioned.* When this happens in the eyes of children, of those, namely, who are of a moist constitution of body, and tender skin, it is the more easily deterged. (3.) Now, the medicines which deterge the eye and take off the whiteness, are, sal pruneUa (?), Andarene ’ salt, sal ammoniac, hastai’d sponge,^ glass-gall (?),® the sea-crah, the dungs of sparrows, swallows, starhngs, * mice, and crocodiles, the common sweet flag, ebony, greater celandine, coral, tutty, haematite, verdigris, Arabian sugar,^ the dregs of vinegar burnt, the sediment of urine, myrrh, juniper resin, ohve gum, hitter almond gum, the milky juice of Avild lettuce, glass, the dung of bats, and musk.® It will be best to use these when the patient is just come out of the hath, or after holding his head over the steam of hot water; and it is right to make use of mild medicines alone, nay, the mildest of these, especiaUy in soft and moist bodies, p. 148. (4.) The description of a mild medicine which removes the white specks from the eye :— l^Form. 10.] Take of Sarcocol, \ATiite Sugar Candy; Sprinkle the powder in the eye. ' See above, Chap. vii. § 4. ® See below, Note R. 3 See below. Note S. See below. Note T. ® This list of drugs may be compared with that in Avicenna, iii. 3. 2. § 18. vol. i. p. 547. ed. Lat., vol. i. p. 342. ed. Arab. See also Rbazes, Almans. i.\. 16, 18.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21301943_0072.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
