Syrian Anatomy, Pathology and therapeutics or "The Book of Medicines." The Syriac Text, edited from a rare manuscript with an English Translate, Etc. Vols. I & II

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Budge, an Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum, published numerous works on the ancient Near East. His translation of The Book of Medicines contains numerous prescriptions which he concludes must have been written by physicians both "ignorant and superstitious." Budge may be referring to recipes such as: "the brains of a weazel dried and drunk in vinegar" and "mice dung, with the ashes of burnt wasps, and burnt hazel-nuts." Such rituals as "To stop bleeding at the nose ... Put a piece of hot hog's turd as it comes from the hog, up the nose" might make the patient prefer the disease. Show more