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Rhazes （*(Razh=s), the author of a Greek medical treatise *Peri\ *Loimikh=s, which was published at the end of Alexander Trallianus, 1548, fol. Lutet. Paris. ex offic. Rob. Stephani. His real name is Abú Becr Mohammed Ibn Zacaríyá Ar-Razi, who was born (as his name implies) at Rai, a town in the north of 'Irák 'Ajemi, near Chorásán, probably about the middle of the ninth century after Christ ; and died either A. H. 311 (A. D. 923, 924), or perhaps, more probably A. H. 320 (A. D. 932). Works On the Small Pox and Measles The treatise in question is in fact no other than his well known work, Fí Jadarí wal-Hashah, On the Small Pox and Measles, which was translated from the original Arabic into Syriac, and from that language into Greek. Neither the date nor the author of either of these versions is known; but the Greek translation (as we learn from the preface) was made at the command of one of the emperors of Constantinople, perhaps, as Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. vol. xii. p. 692, ed