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Quotation from A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles by Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)
“As for my own part, I have most carefully inquired of those who use both the Syriac and Greek languages, and have asked them about this matter; but there was not one of them who could add anything to what I have mentioned”
A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles, Chapter I, §2, trans. William Alexander Greenhill
Al-Razi explains that he has searched for anything more that Galen wrote on smallpox.
Citation: "As for my own part, I have most carefully inquired of those who use both the Syriac and Greek languages, and have asked them about this matter; but there was not one of them who could add anything to what I have mentioned" — Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes), A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles, Chapter I, §2, trans. William Alexander Greenhill. (id al-razi-treatise-on-smallpox-and-measles-q1)
Portrait: Al-RaziInGerardusCremonensis1250, Illumination in Gerard of Cremona's Recueil des traités de médecine, Public domain.
