MEDICINE / ANTIDOTES: بانزهرنامه [Panzehirnâme / On Antidotes]

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MEDICINE / ANTIDOTES: بانزهرنامه [Panzehirnâme / On Antidotes]

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Mirliva Mustafa Hâmi Pasha.

Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1271 [1855].

12°, 4 pp. index, 83 pp. lithographed text, lithographed imprint un unnumbered page, original illustrated wrappers, later spine (bookseller’s stamp on blank page, margins with tiny folds, tears and light staining, wrappers little stained with tiny losses on the corners, pin size holes on inner side from binding) (#70613).

First Ottoman book on antidotes, written by a medical doctor Mustafa Hâmi, who gathered information on a military expedition to Yemen in 1849.

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Mustafa Hâmi was trained at the Imperial Medical School in Istanbul and later worked as a physician in Hejaz and an aide of Abrullah Pasha, the Emir of Mecca, and eventually as a military doctor, receiving a title Mirliva (brigadier general). According to the contemporary sources, he was “intelligent, hard-working, virtuous person and has succeeded in publishing thirty useful medical works” (7 Bursalı Mehmed Tâhir, Osmanlı Müellifleri (1299-1915), Vol. 3, İsmail Özen (ed.), Meral Yayınevi, 1975. p. 213). He also translated several works.

In this book Mustafa Hâmi’s lists antidotes for poisoning from minerals, plants (including opium and mushrooms), animals (by eating and touching them, or being bitten or stung), various chemicals, bad air, choking, drowning, strangulation by hanging and also suffocation of inhaling too many flowers in the room.

We could trace on institutional example on Worldcat, held by Aga Khan Library in London.

References: OCLC 1124680097. ÖZEGE 16131; Erdi Okulmuş, Pânzehir-Nâme (Giriş, Metin, Dizin, Tipkibasim) 2015 .

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