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Medical prescription. Some ingredients mentioned are pear (ijjāṣ), jujube (ʿunnāb), almond oil, seeds of chicory (bizr hindabāʾ), Egyptian Cuscuta epithymum (aftīmūn Miṣrī), Syrian Borage (lisān …
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Medical recipe in a beautiful hand, from a literary text. Mentions antidote (tiryāq) and wheat flour (daqīq al-ḥinṭa).
Medical text in Arabic script. Contains instructions for applying flower oil and water lily (nīlawfar) oil over the head, forehead, and a few drops in …
4 pages from the medical text of the infamous medieval Persian polymath Muḥammad b. Zakarīyyā al-Rāzī (d. 925 or 935 CE) entitled al-Ḥāwī fī-l-Ṭibb. The …
Confirmation from the Jewish hospital of in Cairo acknowledging that the patient will pay the cost of the free treatment if it is found that …
Letter to a doctor of general clinic under the supervision of the Agudat Israel explaining that the treatment of the patient will be completed with …
Announcement by the Holim medical clinic to the Jewish public in the opening of the daily clinic for the service of the poor – Museum …
Fragment from a medical text, in Arabic script. Includes remedies for illnesses and mentions the disease of the fox (dāʾ al-thaʿlab).
Booklet of medical recipes.
Daʿwat al-Aṭibbāʾ (The Doctors' Dinner Party) by Ibn Buṭlān. See also Yevr. Arab. II 1545 and BL OR 5565G.44–45 (PGPID 31347).
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. There is also one page of a medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic, discussing the factors to consider (temperament, strength, habitus, age) in deciding …
Medical treatise, in Arabic script. On anatomy dealing with the vena cava (al-ʿirq al-ajwaf). Contains rubrication (use of red and black inks).
Medical prescription for a linctus containing opium. (Information from Goitein's index card and CUDL)
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12 pages of astrological/medical prognostications—horoscopes for male and female. E.g., "Mazal sarṭan lineqeva. La ke su mazal es en sartan sera fermosa de forma y …
Recto: Memorandum in Arabic script, with a learned disquisition on the meaning of the term "ṭabīʿa" in the works of Hippocrates. Names several specific medical …
Page 1: Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic giving two prescriptions for pediatric ophthalmia (ramad), the second of which is prefaced, "The doctors in Fusṭāṭ use this. …
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic paramedical treatise on the virtues of various kinds of animal substances. ¶ . . . grind it …
Medical treatise in Hebrew, 8 pages, with magical/astrological/demonic elements.
A list of medicinal items in Judaeo-Arabic and eastern Arabic numerals. Dating: Ottoman-era, perhaps 18th or 19th century. This shelfmark's full ENA 1984 series are …
Medical recipes and remedies in Ladino from an extensive chain of joins that suggest the existence of a broader compilation. On the recto there are …
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First page of a treatise of phlebotomy regarding nomenclature, names, and the number of blood veins (360) in a human body according to Galen and …
Medical treatise in Arabic script. "If the yellow bile burns, a strong fright ensues. . . the cure of phrenitis (birsām) is. . . "
Summary of the extraction and medicinal uses of myrrh gum (from "a type of tree in Yemen"). In Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: Several drafts of legal documents. Item #1: Legal document regarding a business partnership (but not the original partnership agreement). Location: Fustat/Cairo. Dated: end of …
Medical text. Dating: post-10th century, based on the physicians cited within the document. Contains descriptions of the health benefits and medical uses of different fruits--such …
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There are people who dry apricots and soak them in cold water and drink that water on an empty stomach for cooling and quenching. And…
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Document dated 21 December 1817 CE (12 Tevet 5578 AM) in which Mordekhai Romano details the plan for medical treatment for the children of his …
Letter from Avraham b. Saadya the Hebronite, (the muqaddam of?) Bilbays, to Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel the Sefaradi, Fustat, beginning of the twelfth century. Discusses in …