Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius., Includes Averroes: Colliget., Yale Med copy from Ulrich Ellenbog, who signed, annotated, and decorated the text with some red and blue letters., and Yale Med copy has contemporary German binding, K109 Salve-Meister, Memmingen. Described by Scott Husby, 2010.
Title from item., Translated title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[July 1827]
Call Number:
Print01056
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A doctor pumps the stomach of his obese seated patient while another couple wait, one who has already undergone reduction examines his deflated countenance in a mirror. A scrawny and an obese dog play next to the doctor's stool and bucket. On the wall are a picture of an obese man and a skeletal man and a picture entitled "Specimen of the reduction of a dog, performed by the stomach-pump - in 3 operations"
Description:
Title etched below image., One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath. For other plates in the series, see British Museum online catalogue, registration nos.: 1985,0119.89; 1985,0119.312-313; 1985,0119.316-317; and 1985,0119.324., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1827 by William Cole, Newgate Street
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Patients, Obesity, Therapeutics, Stomach-pump, Costume, History, Medical equipment & supplies, Medical procedures & techniques, Pails, Dogs, Mirrors, and Stools
Title above images., Date derived from publisher's dates of activity., Place of publication derived from street address., Vignettes titled: Bleeding, Cup-ping, Amputating, Sally-vating, Taking the Air, Exercise, Applying a Salve, In hot Water, Bathing, How to Releive the Chest, A Bliss-ter, Electrifying, Sweating, Taking a Cordial, A Leech, Lancing, Taking a Black Draught, How to Discharge a little Matter, Taking Pills., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prescription of drugs.
Publisher:
Publishd by O Hodgson 10 Cloth fair and Straker's Lithr
Subject (Topic):
Therapeutics, Robberies, Eating & drinking, Beggars, Singing, Courtship, and Fighting
Manuscript, on paper, in at least three unidentified hands, containing a collection of medical texts. Includes: recipes for cosmetics (ff. 1-10), herbal (ff. 11-28), medical and pharmacological treatise (ff. 28-42), Petrus Hispanus' Thesaurus Pauperum (ff. 44-122), medical recipes (ff. 123-125), De dolore capitis et emigrania et dolore dencium et gutturis (ff. 126-135), medical recipes--some in English (ff. 135-136), De passionibus et opillacionibus epatis et splenis et apostematibus (ff. 138-141), medical recipes (ff. 141-152), Constantinus Africanus' De passionibus matricis et de omni fluxu menstruoso (ff. 153-166), medical recipes (ff. 167-192).
Description:
In Latin and Middle English., Title assigned by cataloger., Script: secretary hand., Layout: single column of around 25 lines., Binding: fifteenth-century English dark brown leather binding, blind-tooled with a single strap and clasp. Later covered by a sheepskin chemise binding, now wanting. Pictures available in manuscript file., Watermarks include a bull’s head (Briquet 14345 or 6), and an armorial shield with 3 fleur-de-lys (Briquet 1697 or 8)., and Front pastedown is early printed waste (Dutch or Italian) containing work on clerical topics (e.g. fugiens clericus). End papers are rubricated, 15th-century vellum leaves from a religious work.
Subject (Topic):
Materia medica, Medicine, Manuscripts, Medicine, Medieval, Therapeutics, Traditional medicine, and Recipes
Manuscript, written with black, red, and blue ink on vellum, includes 3 leaves in front and 5 leaves at end upon which are written an index and materia medica in a later [Italian?] hand. and Purchased in 1958 from Lathrop C. Harper Inc. as a gift to Yale Med from the Library Associates.
Unidentified work on therapeutics, copied by Muḥammad ibn Ṣāfī, at the end of Ṣafar, 1069 H./26 November 1658; 9.5 cm. w., 18.5 cm. h.; written surface measures 5 x 12.5 cm.; ca. 16 lines per page; marginalia, catchwords on bottom of page; laid paper is light brown; the leather binding without flap is blind tooled. Incipit: al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī jamaʻ bayna al-laṭīf wa-al-kathīf wa-aqāma la-nā mawāddan min al-aghdhiyah wa-al-hwiyah wa-al-asqiyah wa-al-adwiyah ... Provenance: Cushing, Arabic Ms. 12/1., Arabic., Manuscript., and With 5 other mss. 1. al-Adwiyah al-mawjūdah fī kull makān / by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī, copied in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1069 H./Nov.-Dec., 1658 by Muḥammad ibn Ṣāfī; 39 leaves; 14 lines per page. Ref. Ulmann, Medizin, p. 266. Provenance: Cushing, Arabic Ms. 12/2. 2. Risālat Shifāʾ ʻājil / by Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad Ṭabīb. 43 leaves, 15 lines per page; catchwords on bottom of page; Ref. GAL S II 1028; NjP (Mach-Ormsby 1365). Dharīʻah and Mach-Ormsby have the auhave the author Ṣadr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jīlānī. Provenance: Cushing Arabic Ms. 12/3. 3. Risālah-i Jūrīyah / by Ibn Sīnā; in Persian; 7 leaves; some marginalia; catchwords on bottom of page; Ref. Ullmann, Medizin, p. 336. Provenance: Cushing Arabic ms. 12/4. 4. Jāmiʻ al-fawāʾid / by Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Yūsufī; copied in 1067 H/1656-1657; 80 leaves; 15 lines per page; catchwords on bottom of page; in Persian; Ref. Storey II 237 # 408 (6). Richter-Bernburg 61. Provenance: Cushing Arabic Ms. 12/5. 5. Taqwīm al-abdān fī tadbīr al-insān / by Yaḥyá ibn ʻĪsá ibn Jazlah; 21 leaves; in Persian; in form of tables. Provenance: Cushing Arabic Ms. 12/6.
