Anecdotes & Antidotes by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192562944
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-04-21T00:00:00+00:00

An example of al-Rāzī’s poetry:

Upon my life, I don’t know, even now that decay announces

an imminent departure, where I shall travel,

Or where the spirit will dwell after its exiting

from the dissolved frame and the decayed body.

Among the 226 treatises of al-Rāzī are:

The comprehensive book * which is al-Rāzī’s greatest and most magnificent book on the art of medicine. However, al-Rāzī died before he was able to publish the book.

Doubts and contradictions which are in the books of Galen.

On smallpox and measles. In fourteen chapters.

Book for those without a physician. In it he lists illnesses one by one and states that it is possible to cure them using commonly found drugs. It is also known as The poor man’s book of medicine.

On the foods and fruits which should be taken at the beginning of a meal and those which should be taken at the end.

An apology for those who play chess.

On the wisdom of backgammon.

The Mansūrī book. Al-Rāzī composed this for the emir and governor of Khorasan.* It is concise and brief while comprising points and rarities of both the theory and practice of the art of medicine in ten discourses.

On the fact that no non-intoxicating drink exists which delivers all the good effects of intoxicating drink on the body.

On the fact that, for all the arts, there does not exist a practitioner recognized for his art, and this is particularly so for medicine, and on what causes ignorant physicians, the general public, and women in the cities to be more successful in some of their treatments of diseases than the learned, and on excusing the physician for this.

On what causes Abū Zayd al-Balkhī * to have symptoms of a common cold when he smells roses in springtime.

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