Squash (Cucurbite)
ca. 1390 · paint and/or ink on vellum
Dimensions 100 × 88 cm
English: Squash (Cucurbite) Nature: Cold and humid in the second degree. Optimum: Those that are fresh and green. Usefulness: They quench thirst. Dangers: They constitute a swift laxative. Neutralization of the Dangers: With salted water and mustard. Effects: A moderate and cold nourishment. They are good for choleric temperaments, for the young, in Summer, in all regions, and above all in Southern areas.
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Squash (Cucurbite) (ca. 1390) by Ibn Butlan (Tacuinum Sanitatis), paint and/or ink on vellum.
About Ibn Butlan (Tacuinum Sanitatis)
bn Butlan (1038-1075) was an Arab Nestorian Christian physician who was active in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age. Taqwīm as‑Siḥḥa (Maintenance of Health) is originally an eleventh-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad.
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