Tag: medical

169 records found
T-S NS 297.48
Medical recipes, e.g. for powders (sufūf) and lozenges (aqrāṣ). In Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. Ingredients include: chebulic myrobalan (ihlīlaj kābulī), dodder (aftīmūn), tragacanth (kathīrāʾ).
T-S NS 31.4
Astrological predictions regarding the occurrence of diseases and shortage of food. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL.)
T-S NS 324.116
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions a plant that grows in the environs of Jerusalem.
T-S NS 324.12
Recto: Letter or essay regarding the proper authorities to consult when learning the art of ophthalmology; the author of this fragment seems to be a partisan of using ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā's handbook Tadhkirat al-Kaḥḥālīn, and "the big books" must only be consulted from time to time. Verso: Pen trials in Hebrew script.
T-S NS 324.27
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Includes instructions for the Mithridates antidote.
T-S NS 338.78
Summary of the extraction and medicinal uses of myrrh gum (from "a type of tree in Yemen"). In Judaeo-Arabic.
T-S NS 83.28
Recto: Memorandum in Arabic script, with a learned disquisition on the meaning of the term "ṭabīʿa" in the works of Hippocrates. Names several specific medical treatises. Unclear if this is related to verso, which is a medical prescription, mentioning chebulic myrobalan, white agaric, turpeth and Chinese rhubarb. (Information in part from FGP.)
T-S NS J173
Record of the auction of the library of the late al-Shaykh al-Sadīd Abū Saʿd al-Ṭabīb. The proceeds are at least in part for the widow. Dated: Tuesday, 13 Kislev 1502 Seleucid, which is 1190/91 CE. This is is a large and tremendously learned library, mostly of medical books, but there are also scattered titles pertaining to bibliography, philosophy, logic, geomancy, and other matters.
UPenn GF 60
Medical recipes. In Judaeo-Arabic. The hand is probably known.