Two extracts on tuberculosis

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Two short extracts on tuberculosis. The first extract (ff. 1v, line 1-2r, line 9) is said to be from the Hippocratic Treatments (المعالجات البقراطية), a medical compendium by Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭabarī al-Turunjī (أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد الطبري الترنجي), personal physician to the Buyid amīr Rukn al-Dawlah (ركن الدولة; reg. 947-76). The second extract (f. 2r, line 10 to edge margin) is said to be from 'the book of our late grandfather Amīn Bek' (كتاب المرحوم جدنا أمين بك, f. 2r, edge margin, transcribed below, see also statements on ff. 143, line 24 and 165, lines 1-2). This book is likely to be the Speedy Cure and Guaranteed Remedy (الشفاء العاجل والدواء الكافل) by the Ottoman litterateur, poet and physician of Mosul Muḥammad Amīn Bek ibn Ibrāhīm Bek ibn Yūnus Afandī ibn Yāsīn Afandī al-Muftī ibn Maḥmūd Afandī (محمد أمين بك بن إبراهيم بك بن يونس أفندي بن ياسين أفندي المفتي بن محمود أفندي, d. ca 1812, see Raʾūf, 'al-Adīb al-ṭabīb Muḥammad Amīn Bek Āl Yāsīn al-Muftī al-Mawṣilī' [2016]), known as known as Amīn Bek Yāsīn Afandīzādah (أمين بك ياسين أفندي زاده, see. f. 165v, line 2). Further extracts from this text copied by the same hand are found on ff. 3v-90v (in margins), 140v-145r and 165v-171r.

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Begins (fol. 1v, lines 1-2):

فصل في الأبدان المستعدين للسل والحذر منه الأبدان المستعدة للسل هي الأبدان

النحيفة التي لحومها رقيقة سيما في الصدغين والخدين وأكتافها مجنحة ...

Ends (f. 2r, edge margin):

يسقى ماء الشعير السرطاني والحساء من العدس والنشاء والشعير المقشور ومن به حمى لا يشرب الحليب وينفعه شرب المخيض وإن

أفرط لين الطبيعة يسقى سفوف الطين نقلناه من كتاب المرحوم جدنا أمين بك

Extent and format

Ff. 1v-2r

It is part of

A collection of works and extracts mostly on medicine

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Ref: Or 6273

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Or 6273, ff 1v-2r

History of this record

Date(s)

19th century (CE, Gregorian)

Related material

Finding aids

• Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), pp. 41-42

Select Bibliography

Facsimile edition with English introduction of the Hippocratic Treatments :

• Ṭabarī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, al-Muʿālajāt al-Buqrāṭīyah. The Hippocratic Treatments (Frankfurt am Main : Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 1990) 2 vols

Study of the Hippocratic Treatments :

• Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), p. 140

Study of the Speedy Cure and Guaranteed Remedy :

• Raʾūf, ʿImād ʿAbd al-Salām, 'al-Adīb al-ṭabīb Muḥammad Amīn Bek Āl Yāsīn al-Muftī al-Mawṣilī', al-Alūkah al-Thaqāfīyah website, posted 28 March 2016 https://www.alukah.net/culture/0/100893/ [accessed 6 September 2019]

Study and partial edition of the Hippocratic Treatments :

• Qalʿahjī, Muḥammad Rawwās and Muḥammad Ẓāfir al-Wafāʾī, Amrāḍ al-ʻayn wa-muʻālajātuhā min kitā bay: al-Muʻālajāt al-Buqrāṭīyah. Firdaws al-ḥikmah (London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1998)

Study and partial translation of the Hippocratic Treatments :

• Rihab, Mohamed, Der arabische Arzt Abū el-Ḥasan Aḥmed ibn Moḥamed Aṭ-Ṭabarī: Übersetzung einzelner Abschnitte aus seinen "Hippokratischen Behandlungen" (Leipzig: Universität Leipzig, 1927)

Subjects

MedicineMedicine--Early works to 1800

People & organisations

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ṬabarīMuḥammad Amīn Bek Yāsīn Afandīzādah

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