Author: (Maïmonide).
Title: SARH ASMA AL-UQQAR (L'explication Des Noms De drogues). Un Glossaire de Matière Médicale Composé par Maïmonide. Texte Publié pour la Première Fois d’Après le Manuscript Unique par Max Meyerhof.
Description: Le Caire Imprimerie de l’Institut Français D’Archéologie Orientale, 1940. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. lxxvipp Introduction in French + [70]pp. Arab text. 2 plates. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, original wrapps., minor marking and fading. ¶ Max Meyerhof (1874–1945), ophthalmologist and medical historian. One of the first to study Maimonides as a physician; he discovered the original arabic document in the Hagia Sophia library in Istanbul. The above is the Arabic original with an introduction in French. A French translation was published in 1940 followed by Hebrew and English editions. It is a pharmacopoeia in 405 paragraphs indicating the names of drugs, with their equivalents in Arabic, Greek, Syriac, Persian, Berber and Spanish.

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