Seyyid Mehmed Efendi's work, the Mizan-i Nabz [Seyyid Mehmed Efendi'nin Mizan-i Nabi adli eseri.]

Abstract

This study is a criticism of the medical manuscript Mizan-i Nabz's text. The first manuscript of Mizan-I Nabz is kept at the Beyazt Goverment Library registered at number 2557 and a copy of it is at the Medical History Department library of the Cerrahpaşa medical School, at number 313. Mizan-i Nabz was written by Seyyid Mehmed Efendi in H.1179/M.1765. It was copied by Re'fet Efendi in H.1254/M.1838. This study consists of an introduction, a critisized text, index and Arabic terminology. The introduction describes the Mizan-i Nabz, gives a biography of the writer and the period it was composed, its contents, Mizan-i Nabz's characterictics of spelling and grammar, the number and the percentage of the Arabic, Turkish. Persian, Latin and Greek words, the medical ideas and perspectives of Seyyid Mehmed, the former scholars and a brief information on the treatment according to the four elements, humors and the pulse. The second part of the study is the text and the page numbers of each copy are noted, but, line numbers are given according to the Bayezit Library copy, which is 21 lines. The words in red by the writer are written in italics. Differents between the two texts are noted as footnotes. The third part is the index and it contains 136 Turkish, 810 Arabic, 41 Persian, 4 Latin, 2 Greek, overall 993 words, including the entry of all forms of the words. The fourth part is on the Arabic terminology used in the text and their meanings.