Sm ANALYSIS -OF'^ 



Ebn BmT a'r quotes the fame v«^riterfor its dafe, in hischapter on aotJ- 

 tiotcs: this teilimony, which is rather fufpiciousi and which may have 

 proceeded frora'thedeiire of the authors to fhelter themfelvcs under a 

 great name, would only add an additional i'zSt to the many we already ' 

 poffefs, evincing the polfeffionby thevlr^^^ of many claffical works, esr- 

 pecially on the faiences, which have not come down ■ to later ages, and '' 

 will leave Europe Ml indebted to the ^r^^^ or P^r/^^jw^, for its ac- - 

 quaintance with the fubliances caWc&Bezoars. 



The name from which the modern appellation is derived, efiablifh^is 

 the priority of knowledge in favour of the Perfians, 2iS Pazihr, Padzekt, 

 or Bddzehr,wcc Perfian words — the author' of' the Jamihir Ndma ex- 

 plains the term, a^ fignifying the repeller of poifon, and MeninskiIs 



Etymology therefore is ■ not without original fupport y^jjC pad- 

 uhr vel. q. Padizchr et yi'j^l Badzehr, compoiitum' ell"' ex - 

 ^t Pad-et y^ J venenum toUens, pellens, alexi-pharmicum et 

 lapis Bezoar. It may therefore be termed properly the poilbra 

 iione, which is equally the iignification of its Arabic name, Hajar-us 

 S^OTj.and the name by v/hich it is ufually known' of Zehr Mohtreh. 



Oriental writers diflinguiffi Bezoar into two clafles, or mineral and' 

 animal: the mineral fort is procured, according to Aristotle fays 



Ibni Telmiz, from /tZjiw and C/^zl^z^; according to Abu HinduyaHj, 

 ftara iht xnouTiizin Zerawand in Cirniani it is perhaps the foffile B^- 

 Z(7^r of jE?wrc_^<?, a kind of ftonc refembling the animal Bezoar^ being, 

 formed ot concentric layers,., and limilar to itg externalljj m iize and.^ 



Ths other kiad of Pad-zelir is the animal forf, calledby thcJrah very 

 accurately, Eejer at tis or goat Eoae i it being in fad a-calcaious concre- 



