Abu Nu'aym's Hilyat al-Awliya', scan volume 8, p. 365 — medicine and the physician; sickness

حلية الأولياء لأبي نعيم، المجلد المصوَّر 8، ص 365 — الطب والطبيب، السقم

An excerpt from Abu Nu'aym's Hilyat al-Awliya', scan volume 8, p. 365, that mentions medicine and the physician, sickness, pain, 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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«… فأبدى له الشيخ البشر والترحيب فسلنا عليه جميعا، ثم بدأ الشاب بالكلام فقال : إذ الله تمالى بمنه وفضله قد جملك طبيبا لسقام القلوب، ومعالجا لأوجاع الذنوب، وبى جرح قد فعل، وداء قد استكمل، فان رأيت أن تتلطف لى ببعض …»

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

People and things also explored

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

Sources

Abu Nu'aym Ahmad ibn 'Abd Allah al-Isfahani (d. 430 AH), Hilyat al-Awliya' wa-Tabaqat al-Asfiya' — Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1st edition 1409 AH/1988 CE

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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.