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Sino-Iranica - The Search For Mecca

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528<br />

<strong>Sino</strong>-<strong>Iranica</strong><br />

of curing any disease, and called pa-tsa'r" (written as above); 1 cf.<br />

Portuguese bazar, bazodr, bezoar.<br />

On the other hand, bezoars became universal in the early middle<br />

ages, and the Arabs also list bezoars from China and India. 2 From the<br />

Persian word fadaj, explained as "a stone from China, bezoar," it<br />

appears also that Chinese bezoars were traded to Persia. In Persia, as<br />

is well known, bezoars are highly prized as remedies and talismans. 3<br />

1 Ao-men U lio, Ch. B, p. 37.<br />

2<br />

J. Ruska, Steinbuch des Aristoteles, p. 148.<br />

8 C. Acosta (Tractado de las drogas, pp. 153-160, Burgos, 1578), E. Kaempfer<br />

(Amoenitates exoticae, pp. 402-403), Guibourt (Histoire naturelle des drogues<br />

simples, Vol. IV, pp. 106 et seq.), and G. F. Kunz (Magic of Jewels and Charms,<br />

pp. 203-220) give a great deal of interesting information on the subject. See also<br />

Yule, Hobson-Jobson, p. 90; E. Wiedemann, Zur Mineralogie im Islam, p. 228;<br />

D. Hooper, Journal As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. VI, 1910, p. 519.

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