<br><p><b>Identifier</b>: cairojerusalemda01marg (<a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;profile=default&amp;fulltext=Search&amp;search=insource%3A%2Fcairojerusalemda01marg%2F">find matches</a>)<br><b>Title</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidcairojerusalemda01marg">Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus:</a><br><b>Year</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1912">1912</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1910">1910s</a>)<br><b>Authors</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorMargoliouth__David_Samuel__1858_1940___from_old_catalog_">Margoliouth, David Samuel, 1858-1940. (from old catalog)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorTyrwhitt__Walter_Spencer_Stanhope__1859_1932___from_old_catalog__illus">Tyrwhitt, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, 1859-1932, (from old catalog) illus</a><br><b>Subjects</b>: <br><b>Publisher</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherNew_York__Dodd__Mead_and_company">New York, Dodd, Mead and company</a><br><b>Contributing Library</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorThe_Library_of_Congress">The Library of Congress</a><br><b>Digitizing Sponsor</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorThe_Library_of_Congress">The Library of Congress</a><br><br><b>View Book Page</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/cairojerusalemda01marg/cairojerusalemda01marg#page/n404/mode/1up">Book Viewer</a><br><b>About This Book</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cairojerusalemda01marg">Catalog Entry</a><br><b>View All Images</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidcairojerusalemda01marg">All Images From Book</a><br>
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chained. The médical schools of the Description are ail of a later period than the hospitals. The fîrst was called the Dakhwariyyah in the old Ba-zaar of the Goldsmiths south of the Great Mosque,founded in the year 1250 by a physician, who, for his successful treatment of maladies sufïered by the Ayyubid princes, was given the title Chief of the Physicians of the Two Zones (Syria and Egypt).It appears that a successful médical career was a road to fortune in those days as in thèse ; this person received as fées for spécial cures the sums of 7000 and 12,000 dinars, and al-Ashraf settled on him es-tâtes which brought in 1500 dinars annually, when he gave him the post of court-physician. The build-ing left by him to the city as médical school had been his own house. Two other houses were devoted to the same object within the next sixty years, but one of thèse was afterwards turned into a mosque,whereas the other went to ruin. The tr<i><br></i>
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Walter Spencer-Stanhope Tyrwhitt (W.S.S Tyrwhitt R.B.A.) 1859-1932</div>
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