Pseudo-Mohammed: recipe against epilepsy ascribed to the Prophet Mohammed

Pilules de Mahomet contre l'Épilepsie ou Mahométain. Recette tirée d'une Pharmacopée orientale et réproduite à l'aide de l'écritura coufique. Employée dans une Pharmacopée Pontificale des Imams, arrières petit-fils de Mahomet. Autre Recette perfectionée et réformée. Autres Pilules réformées... At the top of the first leaf is an oriental-style decoration in water-colour. Two of the leaves consist of parts of a printed notice of meetings of the Académic Royale de Médecine, dated 7/11/1846 addressed to M. Bonastre (i.e. J. F. Bonastre [ -1856]). There is a short glossary of Persian medical terms.

mid-19th cent.

12 ll. 8vo. 19 x 12 cm. Partly on rice paper. Modern vellum binding, with title stamped in gold on the upper cover. Margins cropped; the work is incomplete at the end.

Purchased 1919.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

From the Debacq Collection.