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different purposes.50 According to Said, shiyafa¯t (suppositories) were applied
in the past to the ‘external cavities of the body i.e. the nostrils, ears, rectum,
urinogenital tract and womb’. In present day pharmacopoeias of Eastern
medicine it means a suppository that is applied to the eye, usually of a conical
design. It is rubbed with a few drops of water or some other liquid and applied
to the eyes with a collyrium stick.51
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50 M. Levey and N. al-Khaledy (trans.), The Medical Formulary of Al-Samarqand¯ı (University
of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1967).
51 Said, Hamdard (as in n. 50), pp. 189y190.