Muntakhab al-tawarikh 4.2.8

4.2.8

It is evident from the above description that the disease from which Mahmud died was not either hectic fever (Diq-i-diq) or phthisis (Firishta), but an anæmia, very probably "idiopathic anæmia" or "progressive pernicious anæmia." The condition of the gums points to a possibly scorbutic taint, though it was probably ulcerous stomatitis so common at the close of wasting disease. Malaria may have shared in the causation of the illness. There is just a possibility that the disease may have been myxœdema, the increase in bulk of the body with the alteration and sweating of the skin, the turgescence of the mucous membrane of the mouth—all point in this direction. Against this supposition however, is the sex and the age, both of which are in favour of pernicious anæmia. His age was 61. The question of stone nowhere appears in the original authorities, and it is difficult to see why Briggs should put forward such a statement. See also Elliott, IV. 188 Note 1. flying he ordered them to bring all his wealth and treasures and property before him, he lay looking at them from time to time regretfully sighing at having to part with them. He would not give the smallest trifle to any one. He had made the journey to Hindustan and engaged in holy war, twelve times. Verily his reckoning is with his Lord; and the story in connection with him and Firdausi the poet is well known, and the holy Jami says: