Annals of medical history . ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY Volume IV Winter 1922 Number 4 A NOTE ON THE•LIBER DE MEDICINIS EXPERTIS ATTRIBUTED TO GALEN By ERNEST WICKERSHEIMER. STRASBURG, FRANCE. MONG the writingsfalsely attributed toGalen there is onewhich in Latin bearsthe title Liber demedicinis expertis orLiber de medicinisexperimentatis, or yet again Experi-mentatio medicinalis. According to thefirst words of the manuscript which I havestudied it had been translated from Greekinto Arabian by Johannitius, and from theArabian into Latin by Farrachius: Trans-tulit Johannitius de greco in ara
Annals of medical history . ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY Volume IV Winter 1922 Number 4 A NOTE ON THE•LIBER DE MEDICINIS EXPERTIS ATTRIBUTED TO GALEN By ERNEST WICKERSHEIMER. STRASBURG, FRANCE. MONG the writingsfalsely attributed toGalen there is onewhich in Latin bearsthe title Liber demedicinis expertis orLiber de medicinisexperimentatis, or yet again Experi-mentatio medicinalis. According to thefirst words of the manuscript which I havestudied it had been translated from Greekinto Arabian by Johannitius, and from theArabian into Latin by Farrachius: Trans-tulit Johannitius de greco in arabicum etmagister Farrachius de arabico in is scarcely necessary to recall here thatJohannitius is the latinized name of theArabian physician, Honein ben Ishaq, ofwhome Lucien Leclerc has said thathe is one of the highest intellects andmost beautiful characters that one meetswith in history,^ and that Farrachius(also called Franchinus)^ is the Latinform of the name of the Jew, Faradj benSalim, who lived in the second half of ^ Leclerc, Lucien. Hlstoire de la m^decine : Ernest Leroux. 1876. 2 vol. in 8vo., i, 139. Biblioth^que nationale de Paris, MS. Latin 6893,fol. 28
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