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 expenditure of time and money. Consequently, "the illustrious Kadi Fakhil," (who was apparently one of Saladin's ministers), "whose days may God prolong, ordered the most humble of his servants in 595 ( 1198) to compose a treatise, small, and showing what ought to be done immediately for a person bitten by a venomous animal." The treatise which Maimonides composed, in obedience to this order, he called "Fakhiliteh." This small popular manual reflects in general the pharmacy of Spain and is of no particular interest. The author considers that for all kinds of poisons and venoms the most efficacious antidote is an emerald, laid on the stomach or held in the mouth; and he notes the virtues of theriaca, mithridatium, and of bezoar. But the Kadi was thinking of poor people, and therefore more ordinary remedies were also named. A pigeon killed and cut in two pieces might be applied to painful wounds, but if this was not available warm vinegar with flour and olive oil might be substituted. Vomiting must be excited, and to destroy the virus a mixture of asafœtida, sulphur, salt, onions, mint, orange-pips, and the excrement of pigeons, ducks, or goats, compounded with honey and taken in wine, was recommended. The wisdom of Rhazes, of Avenzoar, and of other great authorities was also drawn from.