Hippocrates

Airs, Waters, Places (Arabic version)

[Translation from Arabic paraphrase of Airs, Waters, Places. Text published in Kitab buqrat fi-l-amrad al-biladiyya. Hippocrates: On endemic diseases (airs, waters and places); edited and translated with introduction, notes and glossary by J. N. Mattock and M. C. Lyons. Cambridge, published for the Cambridge Middle East Centre by Heffer, 1969, p. 149.]
 

Many Turks, in addition to what we mentioned about them, are similar to eunuchs [al-khisyaan], having no potency with women, doing the chores of women, and speaking effeminately like women.