Some Pharmaceutical Recipes for the Treatment of the Bubonic Pest Contained into the Kitab Al-Tahsil of Ibn Khatima (D.1369)

摘要

This paper is a study of fragments of the work entitled in Arabic Tahsil gharad al-qasid fi-tafsil al-marad al-wafid, which was written in the 14th century by the well known Spanish physician Ibn Khatima and which refers to the epidemics of the pest, the terrible pandemic that struck humanity in the 14th century and devastated Asia, Africa and Europe at that time. The article includes an Introduction about the author and the medical and pharmaceutical significance of the work, as well as a section containing the English translation of a few pages of Part VI, according to the Arabic manuscript 1785 from the Library of El Escorial, relating to the treatment of disease, that contain interesting remedies and recipes from the pharmaceutical and the medical points of view.