Written in the author's own hand

Dimashqi, Muhammad al-Attar al-, Syrian physician (d. 1827/28 CE). Kashf al-Mu'amma 'an Tafasil Anwa' al-Humma [Uncovering the Mysteries on the Details of the Types of Fevers, and two others].

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Three medical treatises, including two in the author's own hand. Muhammad al-Attar al-Dimashqi was a physician from Damascus, known as al-Mudarris ("The Teacher"). He copied all three treatises in this manuscript, as he notes in the signed colophon, and himself was the author of two: Kashf al-Mu'amma 'an Tafasil Anwa' al-Humma (Uncovering the Mysteries of the Types of Fevers, ff. 54-106r), and Sharh Fushul Buqrat (Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms, ff. 106v-136). The treatise on fevers is split into three chapters: the first discusses "daily fevers", the second "humoral fevers", and the third "hectic fevers". Following this is a brief commentary on the Arabic text of the Hippocratic Aphorisms, the commentary also authored and copied by al-Dimashqi himself. Preceding both, the first treatise of the manuscript is Mahmud ibn Muhammad al-Jaghmini's "Small Canon of Medicine", a very popular medical text originally penned in the thirteenth century.