Pethox Parvus : dedicated, without permission, to the remnant of blind priests of that idolatry / by Iconoclastis.

  • Moore, James Carrick, 1763-1834.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Pethox Parvus : dedicated, without permission, to the remnant of blind priests of that idolatry / by Iconoclastis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Persiai) was prQbably not ignorant of: yet, in a treafci^P vhich he wrote, he disguises his knowledge by a delusive theory; being unwilling to signify that this merciless de- mon sprang up among true Mussulmen, the prime favourites of Heaven. The truth is however hinted at by this author in an Ai'abian manuscript in the library of tlie university of Leyden, and fully unfolded in ancient work lately (discovered by the Ff;enGli;^pavans at QrancJ Cairo*. It is there stilted, that in the eighth year of the Jlegira, an old A^^ab gained his livelihood at Meditia by healing horses' and camels' hoofs when cracked or festered by travel- ling through the sandy desart. This man * Information coneeming this curious manuscript was given to Lord Hutchinson by ^n old Aurnout; his Lordship ^^izjE^ it, and sent it to London^j where it is at present bji^ried, together with the other pgyi)ti3,n antiquities, in the British Museum.