Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 3, p. 15 — named diseases; the hospital and the medical craft

القانون في الطب لابن سينا ج3، ص 15 — أسماء الأمراض، البيمارستان وصناعة الطب

An excerpt from Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 3, p. 15, that mentions named diseases, the hospital and the medical craft, surgery, circumcision and splints, the drug; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… في حمى يوم استفراغية إنه قد تعرض من اضطراب الأخلاط عند الإسهال حركة للروح مفرطة، تشعل فيها حمّى وأكثره الإعياء الذي يتبعه، وقد يفعله بالأدوية المسهلة بما يسخّن، وقد يتبع الفصد بما يزيل من رطوبة الأبخرة، ودمويتها إلى صيورتها دخانية …»

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Mentions: 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. 3 (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.