[Sca-cooks] Medieval Arabic Medical Formulary
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 17 13:38:28 PDT 2002
Well, this note is just to let off some good steam. I am so excited.
I just got a book i ordered in the mail:
The Medical Formulary or Aqrabadhin of al-Khindi
trans. Martin Levey
It includes photographs of the original document (which is from
several centuries after al-Khindi) facing each page of translation.
Some of the recipes are even usable (i.e., not poisonous :-),
although i don't know how efficacious they are. I will, however,
avoid using dangerous minerals such as mercury, minium (red lead),
and ceruse (white lead), and natural products such as agaric,
hellebore, and goat or camel dung.
Anahita
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