[2699] It occupies but a little over three pages in the 1481 edition. Since in the middle of the treatise we read “Magister rasis fecit cauterizari quidem artheticum ...,” etc., it is perhaps by a disciple rather than Rasis himself.
[2700] 79, Dissertatio de causis quae plerorumque hominum animos a praestantissimis ad viliores quosque medicos solent deflectere.
124, Liber, Quod medicus acutus non sit ille qui possit omnes curare morbos quoniam hoc non est in hominum potestate ...,
125, Epistola, Quod artifex omnibus numeris absolutus in quacumque arte non existat nedum in medicina speciatim: et de causa cur imperiti medici, vulgus, et etiam mulieres in civitatibus, foeliciores sint in sanandis quibusdam morbis quam viri doctissimi et de excusatione medici hoc propter.
There appears to be a German translation by Steinschneider of this work by Rasis on the success of quacks and charlatans in Virchow’s Archiv f. Pathologische Anatomie, XXXVI, 570-86.
[2701] Ranking (1913), #180, 15, 138, 163.
[2702] Ibid., #137; also 145, Supplementum libris Plutarchi.
[2703] Ibid. #126, Liber, De probatis et experientia compertis in arte medica; per modum syntagmatis est digestus. #205, Liber, Quod in morbis qui determinari atque explicari non possunt oporteat ut medicus sit assiduus apud aegrotantem et debeat uti experimentis ad illos cognoscendos. Et de medici fluctatione.
[2704] Ibid. #25, 26, 32-35, 38, 40. I should guess that 201, Arcanum arcanorum de sapientia, was the same as 35, Arcanum arcanorum.
[2705] Ibid. #40, Responsio ad philosophum el-Kendi eo quod artem al-Chymi in impossibili posuerit.