Ibn al-Athir's Usd al-Ghaba, scan volume 2, p. 1159 — medicine and the physician; illness and the sick

أسد الغابة لابن الأثير، المجلد المصوَّر 2، ص 1159 — الطب والطبيب، المرض والمريض

An excerpt from Ibn al-Athir's Usd al-Ghaba, scan volume 2, p. 1159, that mentions medicine and the physician, illness and the sick, leprosy and vitiligo, health; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… عبيد. وهو وهم فيه إنما هو واستعمله عمر بن الخطاب خازناً على بيت المال، مُعَرِّض بن معيقيب لا معيقيب بن مُعَرّض. وأصابه الجذام، وأحضر له عمر وقد ذكره على الصحة في معرض بن معيقيب، الأطباء، فعالجوه، فوقف المرض. فلينظر من …»

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Simple and compound drugs (al-adwiya al-mufrada wal-murakkaba)· Setting fractures and dislocations (al-jabr wal-kasr)· Prophetic medicine (al-tibb al-nabawi)· Theriac and poisons (al-tiryaq wal-sumum)· Anatomy· Disease (al-marad)· The four elements (al-arkan)· Health (al-sihha)

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Usd al-ghaba fi ma'rifat al-sahaba — Ibn al-Athir

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Simple and compound drugs (al-adwiya al-mufrada wal-murakkaba)

Book II of the Canon is on simple drugs, and its first part sets out the natural rules for knowing them in six treatises, among them the knowing of their temperaments by experiment and by analogy. For experiment Ibn Sina sets seven conditions, among them that the drug be free of an accidental quality, that the illness be a single one, and that the trial be on the human body. Book V is on compound drugs, the pharmacopoeia (al-aqrabadhin), and opens with a treatise on why compounding is needed.