"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides

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Preparing Medicine from Honey', from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides, dated 621/ 1224, Attributed to Iraq, Baghdad, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 12 3/8 in. ( cm), Codices, One of the most influential medical treatises handed down to Muslims was De Materia Medica, by a first-century Greek physician in Cilicia (southern Anatolia). The left page concerns making medicine from honey and water, prescribed to cure weakness and loss of appetite

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