Rhazes

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Mustio provided no etiology or name for the illness, but he gave a brief description of the affliction ( "if the infant will have loosened his belly") and of the cure, and he specified that the nurse should receive the medication. 147 Rhazes and Avicenna included the most extensive discussions of the etiologies of the disease yet disagreed considerably.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Only with the introduction of the Arabic encyclopedias (Rhazes, Avicenna, and Haly Abbas) does there appear an equally well-organized and complete discussion in Western writings (Bartholomaeus, Thomas, Vincent, Aldobrandino). back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Vincent of Beauvais cited the qualifications for a wetnurse as described by his three pediatric authorities, the Arabic doctors Rhazes, Haly Abbas, and Avicenna.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Rhazes 'De curis puerorum138 and two brief Western treatises of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries concentrated on the practical side of children's pathology.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Rhazes, Haly Abbas, and Avicenna included discussions of a variety of childhood pathologies, discussing symptomology, prognosis, and cures. 137 Most important, the quality of milk was a focus of concern in three independent treatises that dealt exclusively with pediatric illnesses.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Note 138: There is no Arabic version of this text, though sections of Rhazes 'Liber ad Almansorem, Haly Abbas's Practica, and Avicenna's Canon contain similar (but by no means identical) matieral.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

One prolific Arabic medical authority, known to the Latin West as Rhazes (Muhammed ar-Razi, died circa 932), wrote two large encyclopedias.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Note 23: See Jacquart and Micheau, La médecine arabe, pp. 57 — 68 on Rhazes 'writings and biography.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Rhazes attributed to corrupt milk such illnesses as insomnia, vomiting, diarrhea, some forms of epilepsy, and pustules in the mouth, while Avicenna, who rarely discussed origins, invoked that etiology but once, for colic.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005