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Quotation from A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles by Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)
“the inquietude, nausea, and anxiety are more frequent in the Measles than in the Small-Pox ; while, on the other hand, the pain in the back is more peculiar to the Small-Pox than to the Measles”
A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles, Chapter III, §1, trans. William Alexander Greenhill
The parenthesis in which al-Razi distinguishes the two diseases by their leading symptoms.
Citation: "the inquietude, nausea, and anxiety are more frequent in the Measles than in the Small-Pox ; while, on the other hand, the pain in the back is more peculiar to the Small-Pox than to the Measles" — Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes), A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles, Chapter III, §1, trans. William Alexander Greenhill. (id al-razi-treatise-on-smallpox-and-measles-q4)
Portrait: Al-RaziInGerardusCremonensis1250, Illumination in Gerard of Cremona's Recueil des traités de médecine, Public domain.
