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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    Common Chick Peas, of each ten drachms, Ben Seeds, Costus, Long Birthwort, of each five drachms; Ruh them in Barley water or Melon water, and anoint the body with it, and let the patient be washed next day with a decoction of Violets and Barley. (38.) Another medicine for removing the marks of the Small-Pox :— {Form. 25.] Take of old Bones, Persian Reed roots, Fresh common Cress, p. 230. Wheat Starch, Lupines, Melon Seed, Common Chick Peas, Washed Rice, Ben Seeds, Costus; Rub them in Melon water, and anoint the patient with it. (39.) A plain and simple liniment:— [Form. 26.] Take of peeled Melon Seed, Sweet Almonds peeled, Rice Meal, Common Chick Peas, Old Bones, Preserved (?) Litharge; Rub them in Melon water or Barley water, and anoint the patient. (40.) I once saw a person with the Small-Pox, who was washed with salt and water, and afterwards swelled, and suffered great pain, because the pustules were not ripened. It is better that they should be dried up when necessary with a consider- able quantity of common camphor dissolved in rose water; and let the patient sleep1 upon millet meal, willow leaves, and roses both dried and fresh; in summer, when there is much heat, light a fire with sanders, and in winter with tamarisk, myrtle leaves, and willow leaves. (41.) Before the Small-Pox comes out2 it is better to drop into the eye rose water with common camphor or sumach, or 1 See above, §§ 17, 20, and below, § 80.