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Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 2, p. 20 — illness and the sick; fever

القانون في الطب لابن سينا ج2، ص 20 — المرض والمريض، الحمى

An excerpt from Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 2, p. 20, that mentions illness and the sick, fever, named diseases, the disease and its remedy; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… السرسام الحار، وهو مرض معروف. وهو التهاب الدماغ. ليثرغس: حالة دوار وفقدان للإحساس والقوة أو النسيان. فرانيطس: هو قرانيطس، أو السرسام الحار. المبرسمة: من أصيبت بداء البرسام. وهو حمّى يلازمها صداع وثقل رأس.»

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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. 2 (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'.