al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 21 — medicine and the physician; illness and the sick

الحاوي في الطب للرازي، ص 21 — الطب والطبيب، المرض والمريض

An excerpt from al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 21, that mentions medicine and the physician, illness and the sick, named diseases, the hospital and the medical craft, treatment, surgery, circumcision and splints, the drug; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«أمراض الرأس في السكتة والفالج والخدر والرحشة... الخ قليلٍ، وإذا أمكن فليكن أول علاجك الفصد كما فعل حذّاق الأطبّاء فإنك تخفّف بذلك عن جملة البدن، والحمى دواءً عجيبٌ له لأنها تسخّن وتذهب البلغم. لي أبلغ علاجه الجوع والاستفراغ والسهر والحركة. …»

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Mentions: Medicine· Surgery, the work of the hand (al-jiraha)· Simple and compound drugs (al-adwiya al-mufrada wal-murakkaba)

People and things also explored

Medical treatment (al-mu'alaja)· al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1095 — illness and the sick; named diseases· al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1230 — cupping; the hospital and the medical craft· al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1248 — cupping; illness and the sick· al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1333 — cupping; pain· al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1354 — illness and the sick; pain· al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1409 — pain; named diseases· al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1661 — sickness; the hospital and the medical craft

Sources

Al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, volume 1 (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, Beirut, digital copy)

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Medical treatment (al-mu'alaja)

Fann 4 of Book I classifies the modes of treatment by general diseases, in thirty-two chapters. Ibn Sina says treatment is completed by three things: regimen with diet, the use of drugs, and manual procedures. The rules of regimen in quality match those of drugs, while food has its own rules of quantity: it may be withheld, reduced, adjusted or increased.