Medical Treatise
The Sickness Lethargy
This sickness is so called because the sick person remains in the condition in which he was . . . this cause; and for this reason the people of this craft [i.e., physicians] call it lethargy and al-Mudrikah, a word having the same meaning. Now, the reason for this is a dry and hard chyme which for the first time appears in the…
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