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NOTES ON THE FOURTH DISCOURSE
(8) De passionibus intestinorum.
(a) De clisteribus et morbis matricis.
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De passionibus renum. <
(i i) De passionibus vesice> hernia, vermibus et cabbo(?) emorroidibus
et spermate. f _
(f 3) De arthetica et varjcibus.
(13) De squirros et aliis apostematibus.
(14) De eo quod dissolvit saniem.
(15) De dislocatione e,t minutione. <
(16) De prognosticis et summa febrium.
(17) De effimera et ethica (for ectica).
(18) De quotidiana, quartana, rigore et aliis.
(19) De crisi.
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(20) De urina et venenis.
(21) De simplicibus medicinis, incipiendo a Camomille usque ad
Dausar.
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(22) De simplicibus medicinis, incipiendo a Dausar usque ad
Cordumeni.
(23) De simplicibus medicinis, incipiendo a Cordumeni complet
totum.
(24) De electionibus et sophisticationibus medicinarum simplicium
tabula.
(25) De regimine sanitatis.
Since the Hdivi or "Continens" must be regarded as the most
important work of the greatest of "Arabian" physicians, access to the
original text would be an essential condition of success in any detailed
and comprehensive study of "Arabian" Medicine. This condition,
unfortunately, is unlikely to be fulfilled, for who would undertake the
labour of editing, or pay the cost of printing, for so large and so crabbed
an exposition of an obsolete science? And even were the difficulty of
finding an editor and a publisher overcome,
'
it is doubtful if the manu-
script materials are sufficient; if, indeed, more thh half the wprk' is
still extant. Of the MSS. I have cfhly been able ta examine cursorily
those in the British Museum and the Bodleian. Laud 2^9 in the
latter is described as containing Part (or Book) I of the work; but
since it deals not only with the diseases of the Brain, but also of the
with Books
Throat, Lungs and Stomach it would appear to correspond
I-V of the Latin translation. Marsh 156 in the same library is
described as containing Books VI and VII, b*ut, to judge by the con-
tents, appears rather to contain Books XVI and XVII. The .third
Bodleian MS., Or. 561, is described by Uri (ii, 162), apparently '
correctly, as containing Books XXIV and XXV, and deals chiefly with
drugs and diet; but beginning with a glossary, alphabetically arranged,
of the different organs and the diseases to which they are subject,
followed by the Kitdbu haUCr-Rumiiz wa Saydalatft-Tibb on Materia
Medica, and "Rules for the use of foods and drinks for the preservation
,