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20* Amir Ashur and Efraim Lev

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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                                  ‡‰˙‚¯Ù˙Ò‡ „˜Â ÈÂӄ ȇ¯Ùˆ „‡Á „Ó¯ ÚÓ

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                               ‡„˙˙‚       „Ó¯  ÍτΠ ‰ÈÏÚ  ˙¯„Ú˙  „˜
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                                ˜‡¯Î‡ ÍτΠڷ‡¯Ï‡ Ò‚χ ÈÙ ÔÈÚχ ÈÙ ÌÊÏÂ
                               [˙„]„Ú˙ „˜Â ‰È‡„˙ ˙ΠȄχ Ï‚¯Ï‡ ‰Èˆ˙˜ Ï˙Ó

                               ‰ÈÏÚ „Ó˙Ú‡ ‡Ó ÈÙ¯Ú ÌÚ‡Ù ‰˙Ï˙χ ‰ÈÏÚ

                               ¯È·˙ ¯È‚ ÔÓ ‰Ú¯Ò ˙‡Ï‡Á ˙Ï˙χ ‰„‰ ÈÙ

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                               Ú‚È ‡Ó ÈÏ j„χ ‰„ÙÈ Û‡È˘‡ ÏÎ Ô‡Ù

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.
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