Al-Razi's Book on Smallpox and Measles (Kitab al-Jadari wa 'l-Hasba)
Al-Razi
was the first physician in history who described in details the
symptoms and signs of smallpox and measles based on clinical
examination, and he was the first who distinguished between these two
diseases by putting what is called now the differential diagnosis. This
was very clear in his Book on Smallpox and Measles. A manuscript of this
book is kept now in Leiden University Library in the Netherlands under
the number 761. A microfilm of this manuscript exists in the Library of
the Institute for the History of Arabic Science in Aleppo. This book was
edited in Arabic and gained a great popularity in Europe after that it
was translated several times into Latin and other European languages,
including French, English and German.
According
to Honka, the book was published in Europe forty times between 1498 and
1866. But the interest that surrounds this book was during the 18th
century, at a time when there was much interest in the inoculation or
varulation around 1720 following the description of the procedure in
Turkey by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the wife of the Ambassador
Extraordinary to the Turkish court in Istanbul.
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