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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    *1763. 8vo. 3 vols. Edinburgh. Stack's English translation, among Mead's works. Title : The Medical Works of Dr. Richard Mead. *l/65. 12mo. 3 vols. Edinburgh, printed for Alexander Donaldson, &c. Stack's English translation, among Mead's works. Title : The Medical Works of Richard Mead, m.d., &c. &c. *176G. 8vo. Londini, excudebat Guilielmus Bowyer. In Arabic and Latin. Title: Rhazes de Variolis et Morbillis, Arabice et Latine; cum aliis nonnullis ejusdem Argumenti. Cura et Impensis Johannis Channing, Natu et Civitate Londinensis. The Arabic text is printed from a transcript of the MS. at Leyden, and differs occasionally from Hunt's translation in the order of the sentences, &c. The Latin version is a new one by Channing himself, and is literal without being barbarous or unintelligible. The notes are generally short and useful. At the end of the volume are added, in Latin, (as Channing had no access to the original text,) Rhazes Almans. x. 18. p. 203 ; Rhazes Divis. c. 159. p. 208 ; and Rhazes Contin. xviii. 8. and part of c. 4. pp. 213, 258 ; two extracts in Hebrew and Latin from Alzaravi, p. 262 ; a passage in Arabic and Latin from Ibn Jazla, p. 270 ; and a medical formula in Arabic and Latin from Haly Abbas, p. 274. Dr. Russell, in the Appendix to his Natural History of Aleppo, vol. ii. Append, p. xi. says of this edition, that he had the book collated with other MSS. in the East, and that the readings were upon the whole found very exact. It is neatly, but incorrectly, printed, there being many typographical errors in the Arabic text besides those specified in the list of errata. The extracts from the Latin edition of Rhazes are also very incorrectly printed; but some of these mistakes do not appear to belong to the printer, but to the tran- scriber, who did not understand the contractions used in the old book he was copying. It is probably now rather scarce, as the Translator had great difficulty in meeting with a copy for his own use in the present work. It is noticed by Schnurrer in his Biblioth. Arab., p. 454, § 397. *l/67. 8vo. Dublin. Stack's Engbsh translation, among Mead's works. Title : The Medical Works of Richard Mead, m.d., &c. &c. *1768. 12mo. 2 vols. Paris. Translated into French from Channing's Latin version by J. J. Paulet in his History of the Small-pox. Title: Hist, de la Petite Verole, &c &c, suivie d'une Traduction Francoise du Traite de la Petite Verole de Rhases, sur la der- niere edition de Londres, Arabe et Latine .... par M. J. J. Paulet, Docteur en Medecine de la Facultc de Montpellier. i= 1772. 8vo. Lausannse, sumptibus Franc. Grasset & Socior. In the seventh volume of Haller's Collection of Artis Mcdiccc Principes, or the second volume of bis Alexander Trallianus. Title : Artis Medics Principes, Hippocrates, Aretams, Alexander, Aurelianus, Celsus, Rhazeus. Recensuit, pra- fatus est Albertus de Mailer. It contains a reprint of Channing's Latin version, with all that is to be found in his edition, except the Arabic and Hebrew text, and the Araljic notes. The alterations and additions made by Hallcr are very trifling, with the exception of a Preface and a good Index Rerum,