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Journal of Semitic Studies 2004 49(2):289-301; doi:10.1093/jss/49.2.289
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Fragments of an Anonymous ‘Old Dispensatory’ in ar-Razi's Kitab al-Hawi*

Oliver Kahl

University of Manchester

The present article is a contribution to the history of Arabic pharmacology. It deals with an anonymous ‘Old Dispensatory’ of which fifteen fragments are preserved in the Kitab al-Hawi, the well-known medical encyclopedia based on the excerpts and clinical notes of the Muslim sage Muhammad ibn Zakariya' ar-Razi (d. 313/925 or 323/935). In the course of a short survey this old, and otherwise lost dispensatory is dated on the basis of the extant fragments to the middle of the 3rd/9th century, rating it among the earliest specimens of Arabic pharmacology currently known. The fragments are given in the original Arabic together with an English translation. An English-Arabic glossary of materia medica and an index of botanical names conclude the article.

* The system of transliteration used in this article is that of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG).


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