Kitāb al-shukūk `alā Jālīnūs li-l-tabīb al-faylasūf Muhammad ibn Zakarīyā al-Rāzī

what is known as 'Arabian Medicine"' (p. VII). Recent research, however, shows more and more that one cannot speak of a medieval Jewish medicine proper. Jewish physicians studied the Arabic medical works which are based on the Galenic medical tradition. A good example is Maimonides, who according to Jewish scholars, made such a great contribution to medieval medicine. But it now clear that he was totally dependent upon the medieval Islamic medical tradition. The term "'ushnah" (lichen, p. X) should have been explained to the reader. Maimonides' "own collection of Aphorisms" (p. XI): this collection can hardly be called his "own", since most of them are based on Galen. The computation (p. XIV, n. 52) "19 Av 1515 (=A.D. 1204)" is unclear; is it according to the Seleucid calendar? As for the fragments, the following bibliographic references can be supplied: al-Razi, K. al-Hi&w, edition Hyderabad, 23 vols, 1952-1974 (fragment no. 106); al-Kindi, K. Kimiyd al'itr wat-tas'iddat, ed. K Garbers, Leipzig, 1948 (no. 358); Nicolaus Damascenus, De plantis, five translations, edited by H J Drossaart Lulofs and E L J Poortman, Amsterdam, 1989 (no. 364); M Dols, op. cit., pp. 69-72 (no. 571); GAS III, pp. 94-5 (no. 908); GAS III, pp. 66, 128 (nrs. 943-944); Ibn Zuhr, K. al-taysir, ed. M alKhouri, Damascus 1983 (no. 1122). There are a number of typographical errors and errors in transcription; some of these are: no. 365 (index, p. 123) "fanafis asqalinuis" = "fanaqis asqlbiytis" (Gr: 1TdctVKEs 'ArKkAqlreLov), Asclepian Panakes; idem "fanafis hamriniyuan" = "fanaqis khiruniyiln (WradvaMeS XeLPtSvLov), Cheironic Panakes (see Dietrich, Dioscurides Triumphans II, 48); no. 1068 "jalap" = "julab", cf. nrs. 1222, 1419, 1578 "juleb" (rose-water syrup). I would like to conclude by noting that some of the fragments catalogued by Isaacs have been published recently; for nrs. 584, 621, and 1596 see J Naveh-Sh. Shaked, Magic spells and formulae, Jerusalem, 1993, pp. 220-6, 238-42.