Cairo Genizah : Medical

Cairo Genizah

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Leaf from a medical work, which deals here with diseases prevalent in the different seasons and months. In the summer, tertian and synochus fevers, trachoma, earache and vomiting occur most commonly. In the months of Tišrīn, there is intermittent fever, coughs, splenic pains, excessive expectoration, diarrhoea, dysuria, pleurisy, pneumonia and chest pains. The work is probably of Christian or Syro-Palestinian origin.</p>