Ibn al-Jawzi's Sifat al-Safwa, scan volume 4, p. 477 — medicine and the physician; sickness

صفة الصفوة لابن الجوزي، المجلد المصوَّر 4، ص 477 — الطب والطبيب، السقم

An excerpt from Ibn al-Jawzi's Sifat al-Safwa, scan volume 4, p. 477, 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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«كر المصطفين من عباد أهل اليمن المجهولين الأسماء فأبدى الشيخ له البشر والترحيب. ثم سلمنا عليه فقال الشاب: إن اللّه بمنه وفضله قد جعلك طبيبا لسقام القلوب معالجاً لأوجاع الذنوب، وبي جرح تغل وداء قد استكمل، فإن رأيت أن تلطف …»

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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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Sifat al-Safwa — Ibn al-Jawzi (ed. Khalid Mustafa Tartusi, Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi, Beirut 1433/2012)

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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.