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Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, p. 659 — leprosy and vitiligo; named diseases

القانون في الطب لابن سينا ج1، ص 659 — الجذام والبرص، أسماء الأمراض

An excerpt from Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, p. 659, that mentions leprosy and vitiligo, named diseases, the treatment of wounds, the drug, the disease and its remedy; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… الجذام لشدّة تحليله وتجفيفه. حراقة جلد القنفذ البرّي نافع من داء الثعلب مخلوطاً بالزفت. الأورام والبثور : القنفذ البحريّ ينفع جلده في أدوية الجَرَبْ، ولحمه نافع جداً من الخنازير. الجراح والقروح : رماد جلده نافع من القروح الوسخة، ويفني اللحم …»

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

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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

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