Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, p. 575 — honey as a remedy; leprosy and vitiligo

القانون في الطب لابن سينا ج1، ص 575 — التداوي بالعسل، الجذام والبرص

An excerpt from Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, p. 575, that mentions honey as a remedy, leprosy and vitiligo, surgery, circumcision and splints, the treatment of wounds, the disease and its remedy; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… وخصوصاً مع دقيق الشيلم والعسل، والنرجس يجلو الكلف والبهق، وخصوصاً أصله بالخلّ، وينفع أصله من داء الثعلب. الأورام والبثور : أصله يعجن مع العسل الكرسنة فيفجّر الدبيلات العسرة النضج، ويضمّد بأصله من أورام العصب. الجراح والقروح : يجفّف الجراحات ويلزقها …»

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Prophetic medicine (al-tibb al-nabawi)· Medicine· Surgery, the work of the hand (al-jiraha)· Simple and compound drugs (al-adwiya al-mufrada wal-murakkaba)

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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. 1741 — cupping; pain· al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1832 — cupping; pain· al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 3048 — honey as a remedy; pain· Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 2, p. 644 — senna and sannut; named diseases· Ibn al-Qayyim's Zad al-Ma'ad, scan volume 1, p. 607 — cupping; cautery

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  • The Canon of Medicine, vol. 1 (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1999)
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al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1230 — cupping; the hospital and the medical craft

An excerpt from al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1230, that mentions cupping, the hospital and the medical craft, treatment, the organs of the body, surgery, circumcision and splints, drugs and pharmacy; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.