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Maimonides on Medicinal Measures and Weights, from His Galenic Epitomes (2009)

Bos, Gerrit (Author)

Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
Volume: 9
Pages: 255--276
Publication date: 2009
Language: English

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Some of the personal comments inserted by Maimonides in his epitomes of Galen's Qataganas (De compositione medicamentorum per genera) and Mayamir (De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos) are discussed. The most valuable of these comments, which have neither been edited nor studied to date, is undoubtedly a lengthy and detailed discussion of medicinal weights and measures employed in Galen and subsequent medical literature. The text of this comment, found on ff. 4b-6a (pp. 6-9) of his epitome of Galen's Qataganas, as extant in MS Berlin 6231, is presented along with a translation. Maimonides' discussion of these weights and measures is interesting because it is based on prominent ancient sources, above all Yu?anna Ibn Sarabiyun (ninth century), that date from the period when the so-called canonical units were established.

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