Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . dwarfed by the Great Umayyad Mosque, whichwe shall leave to the end. The rulers of Damascuswere no less libéral founders of religions édificesthan were other Sultans and governors ; and the De-scription enumerates no fewer than 241 mosques forpublic worship, afterwards supplemented by listswhich bring the number up to 572, though this figureincludes some that were outside the walls. Thesame work gives eleven other lists of buildings inwhich provision was made for religions service, un-less (which is unlikely) the médical schools werean exception. In the time o
Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . dwarfed by the Great Umayyad Mosque, whichwe shall leave to the end. The rulers of Damascuswere no less libéral founders of religions édificesthan were other Sultans and governors ; and the De-scription enumerates no fewer than 241 mosques forpublic worship, afterwards supplemented by listswhich bring the number up to 572, though this figureincludes some that were outside the walls. Thesame work gives eleven other lists of buildings inwhich provision was made for religions service, un-less (which is unlikely) the médical schools werean exception. In the time of the traveller Ibn Ju-bair— the late twelfth century—there were be-sides thèse two hospitals, the old and the new, ofwhich the latter was probably the institutionfounded by Nur al-din, to which référence bas al-ready been made; it had an endowment of fifteendinars daily. Doctors visited it every morning toprescribe for the patients, of whom lists were was spécial treatment for the insane, who were [382]. ÏOMB OF SHEIK ARSLAN, DAMASCUS. THE FRAISES OF DAMASCUS chained. The médical schools of the Description are ail of a later period than the hospitals. Thefîrst was called the Dakhwariyyah in the old Ba-zaar of the Goldsmiths south of the Great Mosque,founded in the year 1250 by a physician, who, for hissuccessful treatment of maladies sufïered by theAyyubid princes, was given the title Chief of thePhysicians of the Two Zones (Syria and Egypt).It appears that a successful médical career was aroad to fortune in those days as in thèse ; this personreceived as fées for spécial cures the sums of 7000and 12,000 dinars, and al-Ashraf settled on him es-tâtes which brought in 1500 dinars annually, whenhe gave him the post of court-physician. The build-ing left by him to the city as médical school had beenhis own house. Two other houses were devoted tothe same object within the next sixty years, but oneof thèse was afterwards turned into a mosque,wher
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