The Book of Musta‘īnī (Kitāb Musta‘īnī, ca. 1106) by Yūsuf Ibn Biklārish al-Isrā’īlī consists of a mostly alphabetical list of 704 medicinal components, identified in …
Gall of hyena hot, dry in the fourth degree
The hyena is an animal of the carnivores . . . . Some call it ḍab‘ [or ḍabu‘] and . . . and . . . ḍab‘ i…