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Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 2, p. 93 — illness and the sick; fever

القانون في الطب لابن سينا ج2، ص 93 — المرض والمريض، الحمى والوعك

An excerpt from Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 2, p. 93, that mentions illness and the sick, fever, treatment, surgery, circumcision and splints, the drug; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… ويكون الدخول في الاستغراق فيه متدرّجاً، ويبتدئ بنوم ثقيل إلا أن يكون سببه برداً يصيب دفعة، أو دواء علاج السبات والنوم الثقيل الكائن في الحمّيات : أما السبات الذي هو عرض مرض في بعض الأعضاء ال لا، فطريق علاجه فصد …»

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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. 2 (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.