The Book Of Medicines

E.A. Wallis Budge, Budge

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136182617
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

First published in 2005. The present work contains the text of the great Syriac "Book of Medicines", edited from a manuscript in my possession, in an English translation of the same, with Introduction, Index. The first section of the Book of Medicines consists of Lectures upon Human Anatomy, Pathology, and Therapeutics, to each of which is added a series of prescriptions of the most detailed character, which the author recommends to be administered in the treatment of the various diseases described in the Lecture preceding. this is here published for the first time.

INDEX

Abdominal headache 42.

Aberration 54.

Abgar, extract of 405.

Abgar root 401.

Âbh, month 546, 557, 566, 588, 618.

Âbh = Lion 568.

Âbh, dieting during 644.

Abraham’s balm 465.

Abrĕshôm 714.

Abrotonon 505.

Abrotonum 159, 303, 481, 716.

Abscess 19, 138, 152, 163, 435, 439, 446, 718.

Abscess, hard 153, 165.

Abscess in diaphragm 254.

Abscess in ear 111, 179.

Abscess in eye 82.

Abscess in gum 182.

Abscess in lungs 242, 252.

Abscess in stomach 306, 327.

Abscess in throat 175, 196.

Abscess in uvula 181.

Abscess in veins 450.

Abscess, the red 167, 243, 500.

Abscess, unripe 256.

Absĕnîshan 102.

Absinthe 44, 52, 53, 117, 175, 215, 216, 236, 239, 324, 333, 337, 360, 400, 402, 403, 417, 418, 425, 430, 432, 433, 434, 435, 441, 448, 452, 453, 454, 457, 463, 464, 503, 505, 665, 682, 717.

Absinthe, good extract of, 406.

Absinthe, Greek 341, 356, 411.

Absinthe, infusion of 467.

Absinthe plant 370, 373.

Absinthe plaster 438.

Absinthe tablets 402.

Absinthe, tincture of, 112, 406.

Absinthe wine 341.

Abstention from flesh and wine 42, 72.

Abû Laḥghîgh 704.

Acacia 69, 70, 88, 99...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Description of the Manuscript
• Summary of the Contents of the Three Sections of the Manuscript
• Medicine among the Egyptians, Greeks, Babylonians, Assyrians, Syrians, &C
• The Author of the Book of Medicines, and his System of Medicine
• The Fees of the Physician
• Chapter III
• Chapter IV
• Chapter V
• Chapter VI
• Chapter VII
• Chapter VIII
• Chapter IX
• Chapter X
• Chapter XI
• Chapter XII
• Chapter XIII
• Chapter XIV
• Chapter XV
• Chapter XVI
• Chapter XVII
• Chapter XVIII
• Chapter XIX
• Chapter XX
• Chapter XXI
• Index