Summer (Estas)
ca. 1390 · paint and/or ink on vellum
Dimensions 100 × 89 cm
Summer (Estas) Nature: Warm in the third degree, dry in the second. Optimum: For the body - its beginning. Usefulness: It overcomes superfluities and cold diseases. Dangers: It slows down digestioin and increases bilous humors. Neutralization of the Dangers: With a humid diet in a cool environment. Effects: Increases bilous humors and dry substances. It is good for cold temperaments, for old people, and in Northern regions.
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Summer (Estas) (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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