of respect, with an emphasis on "one's neighbour being equal to himself". Other works Zechariah ha-Rofé also compiled a medicinal work in the Judeo-Arabic script, entitled Kitāb al-Wajīz ("The abridged book"), in which he opens with the unequivocal claim that the "cupping therapy (withdrawing of blood from the body by the use of suction cups) and cauterization (the application of a hot iron to one's forehead) are the most basic essentials of the medical practice, although a person's recovery [from his ailment] is dependent solely upon God." The former was practised in Yemen by making an incision in the lower back of the neck and withdrawing blood with the aid of small horns. Kitāb al-Wajīz is divided into three primary sections: 1) The composition of the human body and its temperament, the signs of diseases and bloodletting; 2) List of different drugs, their substitutes and their effect; and 3) The list of organs and their prescription drugs. (In this last section are 40 chapters). Nearly all of the medicinal work follows the practices prevalent in the Middle Ages, and makes use of remedies found in the works of Hippocrates (c. 460–370 BCE), of Galen (200–129 BCE) and of Maimonides. Occasionally, however, the author brings down superstitious practices (supernatural cures) as a remedy for certain ailments, such as spitting into a frog's mouth and releasing the frog in water to abort an unwanted pregnancy, or to hang the skin of a donkey or a wolf's canine tooth and its skin to a child who is disturbed by excessive fear. There is also a detailed description of amulets and their usage in affecting healing or protection. The medicinal work, of which only two manuscripts survive, is still in manuscript form. According to S. Schecter, other materials once comprised the work Midrash ha-Ḥefetz, such as the riddles posed by the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, although these excerpts are not found in the edition of Midrash ha-Ḥefetz published by Meir Havazelet. Schecter published his findings in a different publication, and which are now a part of the manuscript collections in the British Museum (with four copies: Or. 2351, Or. 2380, Or. 2381 and Or. 2382). The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford (see Dr. Neubauer’s Catalogue, No. 2492) and the Royal Library in Berlin also possess copies of this Midrash (The Riddles of Solomon). In Sharḥ al-Ḥibbūr (A commentary on Maimonides'