Arabic in the Sciences
On Smallpox and Measles
الجدريّ والحصبة
Al-Razi's treatise distinguishing smallpox from measles was printed in Latin at Venice in 1498 and republished by English physicians in the 18th century.
- Author
- al-Razi (Rhazes) (d. 925)
- Field
- Medicine
- Arabic title
- كتابٌ في الجُدَريّ والحَصْبة
- Latin title
- De pestilentia / De variolis et morbillis
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Sources
- Encyclopaedia Iranica, 'Hawi, al-' (L. Richter-Bernburg), mentions the smallpox monograph
- LSHTM Library blog, 'Observations on smallpox by the 9th century Persian physician Rhazes' (2022)
- University of Iowa, Heirs of Hippocrates: Greenhill's 1848 translation (notes Channing's Latin of 1766 and a Greek version of 1548)
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