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NOTE XXVII. CERTAIN EMINENT PHVSICIANS 151<br />
Al-Kitdbu'l-Hdwi ("Continens ").<br />
. ,This is the largest and most important of the works cf Razi. It is,<br />
moreover, a posthumous work, for after Razi's death Muhammad ibnu'l-*,<br />
'Amid, the Minister of Sultan Ruknu'd-Dawla ibn. Buwayh, bougftt<br />
the materials and notes Wt by the authc? from his sister for a high<br />
price and placed them in the hands of a committee of l?is pupils to be<br />
arranged and edited. It therefore lacked ^the finishing touch 6fthe<br />
Master's hand, which fact, perhaps, accounts for its somewhat inchoate<br />
character and confused arrangement. The original Arabic text has never<br />
be'in published; MSS. are rare and widely scattered, and it is doubtful<br />
if those which exist in the British Museum, the Bodleian, Munich and<br />
the Escorial represent in all more than half of the entire work. The<br />
Latin version,) first published'in 1486, and subsequently in 1500, 1506<br />
and 1509, is rare, and has been accessible to me only in the copy<br />
marked XV. 4. 2 in the Library of King's College, Cambridge; nor do<br />
its contents agree well either with the account of the> original given in<br />
the Fihrist (pp. 299-302) or with the manuscript volumes which I have<br />
**<br />
examined in London and Oxford.<br />
'<br />
'Yhs,* Fihrist (p. 300) and Qifti describe the book as comprising<br />
twelve parts, thus enumerated by the former:<br />
(i) The treatment of disease and of the sick.<br />
(ii) The preservation of health,<br />
(iii) Fractures, dislocations and surgical operations.<br />
(iv) Materia medica and diet.<br />
(v) Compound medicaments.<br />
(vi) The Art of Medicine.<br />
(vii) Apothecarium; colours, tastes and smells of drugs,<br />
(viii) Bodies.<br />
(ix) Weights and measures. ><br />
(x) The anatomical structure and uses of the different members.<br />
(xi)<br />
Natural causes in Medicine. '<br />
(xii) Introduction to the study<br />
of Medicine: medical names and<br />
, first principles of Medicine.