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.

  • Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925?
Date:
1848
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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 the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    bring on a fatal diarrhoea j1 and if you find in the patient a bloody exudation from the places of the eruption of the Mea- sles, make him sit in a hip bath of cold water. (8.) You should know that the Measles2 which are of a deep red and violet colour are of a bad and fatal kind; and that the Small-Pox in which the pustules are yellow, hard, close toge- ther, confluent, numerous, and of a deep red or violet colour, and that kind which spreads like herpes, and gives the surface of the body the appearance of vibices, are all bad and mortal. (9.) As soon as you see the symptoms of the Small-Pox,3 you should order the patient to gargle his mouth with rose water, in order that the eruption which comes out in his throat may be lessened; and drop into his ear a collyrium of red horn poppy with vinegar and water, in order that the eruption which comes out in his ear may be lessened; and make p. 212. . . J . him snuff up into his nostrils oil of myrtle, in order that the eruption which comes out in his nose may be lessened; for when you have done this he is relieved from great suffering. (10.) If he complains of a pungent pain in the soles of his feet,4 and the palms of his hands, let him put them frequently into hot water. Do not allow him to eat young birds in either of these diseases5 until the scabs of the pustules are fallen off, and the thirst and difficulty of breathing are gone. After the scabs are fallen off, the frequent use of the bath and a fat- tening regimen of the body will efface the pock-holes; and those medicines which eradicate tetters or blemishes in the skin, destroy the marks of the Small-Pox. 1 See above, Ahnans. § 8, and below, Cont. § 2. See above, Almans. § 9, and below, Cont. § 1. J See above, Almans. § 4, and below, Cont. §§ 3, 4. ' See above, Chap. vn. §§1,8. ' See above, Almans. § 7.