Gayetü'l-beyan fi tedbiri bedeni'l-insan - غاية البيان في تدبير بدن الانسان

This volume contains a treatise on therapy and hygiene composed by the distinguished court physician Ṣāliḥ bin Naṣrullāh al-Ḥalabī, known as Ibn Sallūm (died 1080 AH/1669 CE). He presented the work to Sultan Mehmed IV (ruled 1058-99 AH/1648-87 CE) in 1075 AH/1664-5 CE. Ibn Sallūm studied medicine with the most senior physicians at the renowned Bimaristan al-Kamili in his hometown of Aleppo. After becoming the head-physician (başhekim) of the city, he emigrated to Istanbul in 1064 AH/1654 CE with the city's governor Vali İpşir Mustafa Paşa (died 1065 AH/1655 CE), who in that year had been appointed Grand Vizier. He initially served as başhekim of the Fatih Darüşşifası, and his success in that position was rewarded with an appointment as başhekim at the Ottoman court, together with a lucrative salary. He died in Larissa (modern-day Greece) on 3 Rebiyülahir 1080 AH/31 August 1669 CE. The Gayetü'l-beyan consists of a mukaddime, four makaleler (treatises), and a hatime:. (ff 3v-4v) Mukaddime: introduces the science of medicine and discusses the importance of preventative medicines along with a healthy lifestyle; (4v-26r) I makale: outlines the conditions of a healthy life and the main factors affecting it (sleep, eating and drinking, bathing, intercourse, air etc.); (26r-68r) II makale: lists müfredat (single or simple remedies and medicines), in alphabetical order, and then moves on to mürekkebat (compound medicines); (68r-141v) III makale: outlines the main diseases of all the body's organs, including their causes and the medicines to be used in their treatment; (141v-166r) IV makale: lists general diseases affecting the whole body along with their treatments; (166r-v) Hatime; As much he was working within the classical tradition of Arab-Muslim medicine, based on Galenic humoralism, Ibn Sallūm also engaged with the ideas of the controversial Swiss-German physician Paracelsus (died 1541 CE). The latter rejected Galenic humoral explanations and advocated chemical medications rather than traditional botanical pharmacology. Ibn Sallūm incorporated some of these chemical drug therapies into the Gayetü'l-beyan, especially in the fourth makale. The present manuscript is now defective, there being two lacunae of eight folios each following f 60 and 82; the old foliation indicates that the manuscript was formerly complete. The present copy has a marginal addendum to the very first line. Begins:. Besmele, cevahir-i zevahir hamd ü sena, o vacibü'l-vücüd ve müfidü'l-hayr ve'l-cud sani-i alem ve dafi-i emraz-ı beni Adem olan hakim-i çare-saz ve kerim-i bende-nevaz cellet-i azametuhu ve azamet-i kudretuhu cenabının darüşşifa-i kainat ve mülteca-yı hacet-mendan-ı mümkinat olan…. Ends:. Tiryaktan her kimse ki on günde bir kere yarım dirhem kadar kış günlerinde istimal eyleseler sar'dan ve kulunçtan ve hummadan ve zehirli hayvanlar zehrinden ve yaramaz sulardan zarar olmasın def eyler ve gic kocaltır ve evladı olmayanın evladı olmasina sebeptir ve hatunlar dahi bu minval üzerine istimal etseler hamile olmağa sebep olur bi-avni'llah Teala, el-hamdü lehu ale't-temam…. The colophon is on f 166v, and states that the copy was completed in the last third of Şaban 1110 AH/late February 1699 CE.

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For Ibn Sallūm's Arabic version of this work, titled Ghāyat al-itqān fī tadbīr badan al-insān, see Or 6905, Or 11211, and Or 12143. On Ibn Sallūm see Kasım Kırbıyık, 'Salih b. Nasrullah,' TDVİA (islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/salih-b-nasrullah); Miri Shefer, 'An Ottoman Physician and His Social and Intellectual Milieu: The Case of Salih bin Nasrallah Ibn Sallum,' Studia Islamica 106:1 (2011), 133-58; Natalia Bachour, 'Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert in frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul: Studien zur Rezeption des Paracelsismus im Werk des osmanischen Arztes Salih b. Nasrallah Ibn Sallum al-Halabi' (PhD dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 2010). On his Gayetü'l-beyan, see H. Hofman, 'Gâyetü'l-Beyân fi Tedbir Bedeni'l-İnsân II (İbn Sellûm ve İbn Sinâ), Beşinci Milletlerarası Türkoloji Kongresi İstanbul, 23-28 Eylül 1985: Tebliğler: III. Türk Tarihi (1985): I:289-294; Gülbin Özçelikay and Eriş Asil, 'Nasrullah Oğlu Salih'in Gayetülbeyan fi Tedbiri Bedenil İnsan Adlı Eseri Üzerinde Bir İnceleme,' in IV. Türk Eczacılık Tarihi Toplantısı Bildirileri: 4-5 Haziran 1998, edited by Emre Dölen (İstanbul 2000), 249-260.

For an edition in modern Turkish, see İbn Sellûm, Gayetülbeyan Fi Tedbiri Bedenil İnsan-İnsan Sağlığını Koruma Yöntemleri, 2 volumes, edited by Abdi Özkök (Ankara, 1992). For a transcription, see Zekiye Gül Elbir, 'Salih bin Nasrullah (İbn Sellum el-Halebi) / Gayetü`l-Beyan fi Tedbiri Bedeni`l-İnsan; giriş-inceleme-metin-dizin' (PhD Dissertation, Firat University, 2000).