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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES |
Rhazes And A Study On Hamidiye 1013
Dr. Ahmet ACIDUMAN,a Dr. Berna ARDAb
aNöroşirürji Kliniği, S.B. Ankara Etlik İhtisas Hastanesi,bDeontoloji AD, Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, ANKARA
One of the best-known physicians of medieval Islamic medicine is Abu Bakr Muhammad İbn Zakaria (865-925), called as Rhazes in the West. He was the foremost clinician of Islamic countries throughout the Middle Ages. After having studied medicine at the school of Bagdad, he became physician to the hospital of Ray. Later he moved to Baghdad, where he acquired the reputation of a great physician and praiseworthy teacher. When Rhazes died, he left behind more than two hundred books on medicine, philosophy, religion, mathematics, and astronomy. Of these books, three are of great importance regarding the medical knowledge: Liber Continens, Liber Medicinalis ad Almansorem, and Liber de Pestilentia. In medicine; theoretically Rhazes was a pupil of Galen; however, in practice and therapeutically approach he sternly followed Hippocratic ecol. He applied his intense chemical knowledge to the medicine; thus, he may be considered as the founder of iatro-chemistry. A manuscript, which is registered to Hamidiye collection under the number 1013 in Istanbul Suleymaniye Manuscripts Library, is presented as “a medical work of Rhazes” in the library catholog. This work comprises 151 folios and every folio contains 19 lines. Translator, copier and copy date of Hamidiye 1013 are not known. It was discovered during the Ottoman era and translated by the request of Shaik al-Islam Ebul-Hayr Ahmed Efendi (1665-1741), who presented the work to Sultan Mahmud I (1696-1754). In this article Rhazes is re-introduced and his work Hamidiye 1013 is presented with the discussion of the origin of Hamidiye 1013.Keywords: Hamidiye 1013, History of Medicine, Liber Continens, Liber Medicinalis ad Almansorem, RhazesTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2006, 14:83-91
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