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.

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    *1763. 8vo. 3 vols. Edinburgh. Stack’s English translation, among Mead’s works. Title: “The Medical Works of Dr. llichard Mead.” *1765. 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. *1766. 8vo. Londini, excudebat Guilielmus Bowyer. In Arabic and Latin. Title: “ Rhazes de Variolis et Morbillis, Arabice et Latine; cum aliis nonnullis ejusdem Argument!. Cura et Impensis Johannis Channing, Natu et Civitate Londinensis.” The Arabie text is printed from a transcript of the MS. at Leyden, and differs occasionally from Hunt’s translation in the order of the sentenees, &e. 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 aecess to the original text,) Rhazes Alrnans. 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 Arabie 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 Alejjpo, 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 exaet.” It is neatly, but ineorrectly, printed, there being many typographical errors in the Arabic text besides those specified in the list of errata. The extraets from the Latin edition of Rhazes are also very incorreetly 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 diffieiilty in meeting with a eopy for his own use in the present work. It is notieed by Schnurrer in his Biblioth. Arab.., p. 454, § 397. *1767. 8vo. Dublin. Staek’s English translation, among Mead’s works. Title : “ The Medieal 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. &e., suivie d’une Traduetion Fran^oise du Traite de la Petite Verole de Rhases, sur la der- niere edition de Londres, Arabe et Latine .... par M. J. J. Paulet, Doeteur en Medeeine de la Faculte de Montpellier.” *1772. 8vo. Lausannee, sumptibus Franc. Grasset & Socior. In the seventh volume of Haller’s Collection of “ Artis Medicse Principes,” or the second volume of his Alexander Trallianus. Title: “ Artis Medieae Principes, Hippocrates, Aretseus, Alexander, Aurelianus, Celsus, Rhazeus. Reeensuit, prae- fatus est Albertus de Haller.” 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 Arabic notes. The alterations and additions made by Haller are very trifling, with the exception of a Preface and a good Index Rerum.