Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 59.1

RHAZES [ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYA, AL-RAZI] 865-925 Contenta in hoc volumine. Liber Rasis ad Almansorem ; Diuisiones eiusdem ; Liber de iu[n]cturaru[m] egritudi[ni]bus eiusde[m] ; Liber de egritudinibus puero[rum] eiusde[m] ; Aphorismi ipsius ; Antidotarium quoddam ipsius ; Tractatus de preseruatio[n]e ab egritudine lapidis eiusdem ; Introductorium medicine eiusdem ; Liber de sectionibus [et] cauterijs [et] ve[n]tosis eiusdem : casus q[ui]da[m] qui ad manus eius p[er]ueneru[n]t ; Sinonima eiusdem : tabula omnium antidotorum in operibus Rasis contentorum ; De proprietatibus iuuamentis [et] nocumentis sexaginta animalium. Afforismi Rabi Moysi. Afforismi Damasceni. Liber secretorum .Y. ; Liber pronosticationis s[ecundu]m lunam in signis [et] aspectu planetarum .Y. ; Liber qui dicitur Capsula eburnea .Y. ; Liber de elementis siue de humana natura Hypocratis ; Liber de aere [et] aqua [et] regionibus .Y. ; Liber de farmacijs .Y. ; Liber de somnijs .Y. Libellus Zoar de cura lapidis. Mandato [et] expensis ... Octauiani Scoti ... per Bonetum Locatellum 1497 159, [1] leaves (the last leaf blank) 33 cm. (fol.)

First edition containing second editions (first, 1481) of the Liber ad Almansorem, Liber Divisionum, De aegritudinibus iuncturarum, De curis eburnea, De humana natura, De aere et aqua et regionibus, De pharmaciis, and Johannes Damascenus’ Aphorismi. Included in this edition of 1497, and not in the edition of 1481, are Rhazes’ Antidotarium, De preservatione ab egritudine lapidis, Introductorium medicinae, De proprietatibus membrorum, Maimonides’ Aphorismi, Avenzohar’s De curatione lapidis and two further tracts by Hippocrates, Prognosticatio secundum lunam and De insomniis. Liber ad Almansorem was finished towards the end of the ninth century. It contains important statements and observations in numerous medical fields including anatomy, surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, cosmetics, rules of health and medicines for travelers, and has treatments for diseases from head to foot. The ninth book of this work, which deals with therapeutics, gained special acceptance in the Christian occident and was object of numerous commentaries. Rhazes’ De curis puerorum is the first entire treatise on diseases of children. His description of smallpox and measles, contained within the chapter on fevers, is the oldest description of variola and the masterpiece of Muslim medicine”- Sarton.

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Cited references: Garrison-Morton 39.1, Waller 130

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