Volume 1
The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ghâfiqî / by Gregorius Abu'l-Farag (Barhebraeus) Ed. from the only two known manuscripts with an English Translation, commentary and indices, by M. Meyerhof, G.P. Sobhy.
- Abū Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad, al-Ghāfikī, -1165.
- Date:
- 1932-1940
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ghâfiqî / by Gregorius Abu'l-Farag (Barhebraeus) Ed. from the only two known manuscripts with an English Translation, commentary and indices, by M. Meyerhof, G.P. Sobhy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to add this remedy to his famous theriacum, which was com¬ pounded of more than sixty drugs. The “great theriacum” with vipers’ flesh was said to be an efficient remedy against lepro¬ sy; it was always the subject of various superstitions. Idrisi (p. 36) gives various tales on vipers’ flesh. Birii- ni’s paragraph on vipers is short, and Ibn Gazla only repeats Galen’s words. But Dawud gives a circumstantial record of this drug, and mentions which kinds of vipers are the bestfor use as remedies, together with legends about the action of vipers’ poison, mostly extracted from Greek sources. He mentions the Egyptian horned sand-viper, (cerastes). Damtri (translated by Jayakar 1, pp. 56 - 64) abounds in legends about vipers and repeats some of the sayings of medical men (Bakhtishu‘ and others). Synonyms: Gr. : e/jdva (echidna)] Lat. • vipera; Ar.: a fa (plur. afa t ^*); Turk. : engerek(yilan); 0% i)jKal; Pers.: aft or m&r-i-af't >; Eng.: viper; Fr.: vipere; / Germ. Viper; Anc. Egypt; £ Coptic, gqeo . u4. IBN ‘IRS ^i, Weasel. (Led. no. 12). Diosc. II (25) : It is uvyatrj (mygale)1. When its skin is removed and the contents of its abdomen are emptied t. Thus spelt in our MSS. T and G and in Biruni and Idrisi although this word means a field mouse. The quoted paragraph of Diosc. refers to yaXfj (gale), i.e, the weasel,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31362667_0001_0240.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
