Tacuinum Sanitatis, Autumn

Tacuinum Sanitatis, Autumn

Medicine and art.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
Medicine in Art -- history.
History, Medieval.

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Folio 52.v

Baldach, Ibn

Tisch Special Collections ND3399 .I15 2009

Tufts University. Tisch Library.

March 26, 2015

Translation and Transcription
Carlos Miranda García-Tejedor (Doctor in History)

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Approximately 1068, widely used in the 14th and 15th century

Autumn. Nature: moderately cold in the second degree. Optimum: its middle part. Benefit: gradually shifts to the contrary, i.e. hot and wet. Harm: it damages temperate constitutions prone to tuberculosis. Remedy for harm: with humidifiers and baths. Effects: melancholic humours. Advisable for hot and wet [temperaments], youth or adolescents, in hot, wet regions, according to others, in temperate regions.
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