Ibn al-Nafis's Commentary on the Anatomy of the Canon, p. 129 — the organs of the body; surgery, circumcision and splints

شرح تشريح القانون لابن النفيس، ص 129 — أعضاء البدن، الجراحة والختان والجبائر

An excerpt from Ibn al-Nafis's Commentary on the Anatomy of the Canon, p. 129, that mentions the organs of the body, surgery, circumcision and splints; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… فيكون منهما العرق المسمى بالأكحل وكذلك أيضاً يجتمع منه جزء وجزء من الإبطي فيكون منه ذلك عرق يتعمق في الساعد، وهذا غير مشهور ولا اسم له، لأنه لأجل غوصه لا يصل إليه المبضع فلذلك لا يفصد فلذلك هو غير مشهور. …»

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Mentions: Anatomy· Surgery, the work of the hand (al-jiraha)

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Commentary on the Anatomy of Ibn Sina's Canon, printed text (digital copy, edition not verified)

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Setting fractures and dislocations (al-jabr wal-kasr)

Ibn Sina devotes the fifth fann of Book IV of the Canon to bone-setting, in three treatises: dislocation and what goes with it, general principles of fracture, and fractures of each part of the body from the skull to the toes. He defines dislocation as the departure of a bone from its natural place, and fracture as the break in continuity that is peculiar to bone. For him setting rests on traction in due measure, then aligning the two bone ends, then pads, bandages and splints, with continued attention until the callus forms.