Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 61

RHAZES [ABU BAKR MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYA, AL-RAZI] (865-925) Almansoris liber nonus cum expositione Sillani Papiensis: & cum Receptis Petri de Tussignano supra eundum. Impensis heredum . . . Octaviani Scoti: ciuis Modoetiensis ac sociorum 1517] 90 ll. 28.5 cm.

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The Almansor, so called because of its being dedicated to al-Mansur, prince of Bokhara, is an encyclopedic general review of medicine. It is divided into ten parts; the first six treat physiology and dietetics, the seventh surgery, the eighth poisons, the ninth pathology, and the tenth the doctrine of fevers. It is the ninth book which was long used in the West as the foundation of academic instruction on therapeutics and was often translated and commented upon, as in the present volume. The extensive commentary here is by Syllanus de Nigris, an early fifteenth-century Pavian physician. Added at the end of the book is a collection of "recipes" by Pietro da Tossignano (fl. 1376-1410), professor of medicine at Bologna and Padua in the latter part of the fourteenth century.

Cited references: Cushing R129

Gift of John Martin, M.D.