P1844QUOTATIONS FROM AHRUN AL-QASS RELATED TO THE GENITOURINARY SYSTEM DISEASES IN RHAZES'S LIBER CONTINENS

Abstract Background and Aims Ahrun al-Qass “the priest”, one of the last Alexandrian physicians before the Islamic era and probably a contemporary of Paul of Aegina, composed an enormous Medical Pandect (Kunnāsh fī al-Tibb) containing 30 books. This work is considered to have been originally written in Greek and later to have translated into Syriac. It became one of the important sources of medicine throughout the Islamic world after having been translated from Syriac into Arabic by Māsarjawayh. Some fragments of this lost work have survived in Kitāb al-Hāwī/Liber Continens. The purpose of this study is to present the Ahrun’s fragments related to the genitourinary system diseases existing in Rhazes’s abovementioned work and to introduce them to the history of medicine in the English language. Method The quotations from Ahrun related to the genitourinary system diseases in the 10th book of Kitāb al-Hāwī, entitled as “fī amrāḍ al-kulā wa majārī al-bawl wa ghayrihā” are identified via the Arabic and Latin text. Consequently, they are compared to each other and translated into English. Results The quotations, in which Rhazes mentioned Ahrun’s name, are related to the genitourinary system diseases such as kidney ulcers, kidney and bladder stones and their treatment, urinary retention, diabetes, involuntarily flow of sperm and its treatment. Some of these quotations also have Rhazes’s comments. Conclusion In this study, fragments of Ahrun al-Qass related to the genitourinary system diseases and Rhazes’s comments on them in Liber Continens are discussed and registered to the literature in the field of history of medicine in the English language.