Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, p. 15 — medicine and the physician; illness and the sick

القانون في الطب لابن سينا ج1، ص 15 — الطب والطبيب، المرض والمريض

An excerpt from Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, p. 15, that mentions medicine and the physician, illness and the sick, the hospital and the medical craft, treatment, health, the drug; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… البدنية والنفسانية والسكونات والأسنان والأجناس، والورادات على البدن من الأمور الغريبة، والتدبير بالمطاعم والمشارب واختيار الهواء، واختيار الحركات والسكونات والعلاج الأدوية وأعمال اليد حفظ الصحة وعلاج مرض مرض، فبعض هذه الأمور إنما يجب عليه من جهة ما هو طبيب أن …»

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Mentions: Medicine· Simple and compound drugs (al-adwiya al-mufrada wal-murakkaba)

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Theriac and poisons (al-tiryaq wal-sumum)· Medical treatment (al-mu'alaja)· Sunan Abi Dawud 3871 — medicine and the physician; the drug· Sunan Abi Dawud 4513 — the Prophet's illness; illness and the sick· Sahih al-Bukhari 4458 — medicine given by the mouth-side or the nose; illness and the sick· Sahih al-Bukhari 5709 — medicine given by the mouth-side or the nose; illness and the sick· Sahih al-Bukhari 5736 — ruqya recited over the sick; recovery from an ailment· Sahih al-Bukhari 6886 — medicine given by the mouth-side or the nose; illness and the sick

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The Canon of Medicine, vol. 1 (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1999)

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Theriac and poisons (al-tiryaq wal-sumum)

Ibn Sina gives the sixth fann of Book IV of the Canon to poisons, dividing them into those that act by a quality in them and those that act by their form and whole substance, and he sets out signs for recognising them and a rule for treating one who has been given poison. Book V opens its treatise on theriacs with the Faruq theriac, which he calls the most majestic and best of compound drugs, its original formula being Andromachus's. The hadith collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim report the poisoned sheep given to the Prophet when Khaybar was conquered, and a report that begins 'whoever eats seven ajwa dates each morning'.