Muhadhdhib al-Din al-Dakhwar, shaykh of medicine

Al-Muhadhdhab al-Dakhwar 'Abd al-Rahim ibn 'Ali ibn Hamid of Damascus; shaykh of medicine and endower of the school for physicians in the old Sugha quarter — born in 565, he studied under al-Muwaffaq ibn al-Matran and al-Radi al-Rahbi and took letters from al-Kindi; the knowledge of medicine ended with him, he wrote treatises and enjoyed royal favour; his income was a hundred and fifty dinars a month with fiefs worth six thousand five hundred dinars. ²

Past middle age a stroke of tongue-tie struck him until he could hardly make his speech understood; he laboured to treat himself to no avail — it only bred further illness — while the circle debated before him and he wrote their difficulties on a tablet; using sharp electuaries a violent fever attacked him, weakening him until his eye ran; he died in 628. ²