A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles by Abu Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacariya Ar-Razi (commonly called Rhazes) translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill 1848
Abu Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacariya Ar-Razi (Rhazes); Greenhill, William Alexander (translator)
$145.00
Place Published: London
Edition: 1st thus
Date Published: 1848
Size: 8vo
Translation of Abu Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacariya Ar-Razi’s treatise on Small-Pox and Measles, being a volume of the Sydenham Society’s publications designed to disseminate historically important medical texts from non-English sources; translated from the Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill; Rhazes was a 10th-Century Persian physician (and alchemist/philosopher) of the Islamic Golden Age, recognised as the first to distinguish between Small-Pox and Measles – as per the text here translated from the orignal ‘al-Judari wa al-Hasbah’; includes Translator’s Introduction, Greek Translator’s Preface, Arabic Alphabet, and Arabic Index containing the names of all the articles in Materia Medica mentioned by Rhazes; 40 page list of Members of the Sydenham Society to rear of text; blue cloth boards with ornate blind-embossed designs, gilt titling to spine, gilt motif to front and rear board; top edge gilt, text block untrimmed; med-heavy foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, occasional foxing in text, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards lightly rubbed, split to cloth at hinge near head of spine; edgewear to head and tail of spine.