Book/Printed Material Outcome of the Quest Regarding the Knowledge.
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Title
- Outcome of the Quest Regarding the Knowledge.
Summary
- Natījat al-maṭlūbāt fī ma'rifat al-ḥummayāt (Outcome of the quest regarding the knowledge of fevers) is a rare medical work on fevers. The author, Bulus ibn Qustantin al-Malaki al-Shaburi, is known only through this one surviving work, which is composed in 30 chapters and a conclusion. The chapters treat fevers in all of their varieties, including sunukhus (from the Greek synochus, meaning continued or unremitting fever) and al-diqq (hectic or deep-rooted fever). The conclusion deals with the treatment of side-effects, including al-sahr (sleeplessness), al-hathayan (delirium), and al-aṭash al-shadīd (intense thirst). In the introduction, the author mentions some of the medical texts upon which he based his work, including Ghāyat al-itqān (The limit of improvement) by Ibn Sallum (died 1081 AH, 1670-71). This allows for a rough dating of the Natījat al-maṭlūbāt to the end of the 17th or the early 18th century. The manuscript presented here includes catchwords and rubrication, and is dated to 1168 AH (1754-55). The title page includes what appears to be an erroneous title al-Mukhtaṣar fī al-ḥummayāt (A compendium on fevers).
Names
- Shaburi, Bulus ibn Qustantin al-Malaki Author.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1754 to 1755]
Headings
- - 1670 to 1715
- - Arabic manuscripts
- - Fever
- - Medicine, Arab
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Reference extracted from World Digital Library: "Shaburi, Bulus ibn Qustantin al-Malaki," in A Shelflist of Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health). https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/pdf/shelflist.pdf.
- - Original resource at: Wellcome Library.
- - Content in Arabic.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021667371
Online Format
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