djaivah

Updated: August 11, 2026

Maser Djaivah, physician to the Khalif Moawiyah, was distinguished at once as a poet, a critic, a philosopher; Haroun, a physician of Alexandria, whose Pandects, a treatise unfortunately now lost, are said to have contained the first elaborate description of the small-pox and method of its treatment.

John William Draper - History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2): Revised Edition