Medicine [IO Islamic 1132]

<ul> <li><strong>Medicine.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1132&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 794&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>794.</p> <p>1132. Size 10 in. by 7 in.; foll. 171. Twenty-one lines in a page.</p> <p>The first portion of a large work on diseases and their remedies, entitled ترويج الارواح من علل الاشباح.</p> <p>The author calls himself IBN SA&rsquo;D AL-D&Icirc;N, and dedicates his work to a Waz&icirc;r, whose name he does not mention. At the beginning of his preface he speaks of the تنقيح المكنون من مباحث القانون ; but as this passage is mutilated , it cannot be ascertained if he speaks of it as a work of his own.</p> <p>According to Ḥ. Kh. (ii. 451), the work I question is by Fakhr al-d&icirc;n Khujand&icirc;. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 285, also mentions a ترويح الارواح فى الطبّ , which he ascribes to Ḥak&icirc;m al-d&icirc;n Maḥm&ucirc;d Tabr&icirc;z&icirc;.</p> <p>Begins: الله احمد علی ان جبلنى بقدرته طالباً لمعرفة ماهية مواليد الاركان .</p> <p>The work consists of an introduction, in fifteen مسلك , and of twenty chapters (قول) , in which the author treats first of the single parts of the body , from the head downwards , and afterwards of general diseases. A detailed list of the contents is inserted in the preface.</p> <p>This MS. contains the introduction and the first eight chapters, which are inscribed as follows:-- 1.القول الاول فى احوال الدماغ و ترويحه ; 2. فى احوال العين ; 3. فى احوال الاذن 4. فى احوال الانف 5. فى احوال اللسان و الفم و الشفتين و الاسنان و اللثة ; 6. فى احوال الحلق و المرئ و قصبة الرئة و الصدر ; 7. فى احوال الرئة ; 8. في احوال القلب و الثديين .</p> <p>Legibly written in Nasta&rsquo;liḳ. Ends abruptly.</p> <p>Worm-eaten. The first leaf is mutilated.</p> <p>[Johnson.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>