Cairo Genizah : Letter; medical

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter describing two meetings with physicians. The first was a visit to Maimonides, who discussed medical topics with the writer, the second was with another physician who visited the writer, checked his pulse and examined a flask of his urine. Mention is made of a trip to Alexandria. The fragment mentions others and their wealth: Abū Manṣūr, Abū l-Muḥāsin, Rīḍā al-Dawla, Ibn Ḥillel.</p>