Ibn al-Nafis's Commentary on the Anatomy of the Canon, p. 166 — the hospital and the medical craft; the organs of the body

شرح تشريح القانون لابن النفيس، ص 166 — البيمارستان وصناعة الطب، أعضاء البدن

An excerpt from Ibn al-Nafis's Commentary on the Anatomy of the Canon, p. 166, that mentions the hospital and the medical craft, the organs of the body; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… إلى مشابهة المادة المعدة تغذيتها، وتلك الأجسام تسمى أيضا أغذية. وهي مثل الخبز واللحم والطعام للإنسان ولا بد أن تكون لهذه الأجسام التي تسمى أغذية في بدن الإنسان ونحوه عضو يحيلها إلى طبائع الأخلاط وذلك العضو هو الذي نسميه الكبد، …»

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Setting fractures and dislocations (al-jabr wal-kasr)· Sunan Abi Dawud 3101 — visiting the sick; the organs of the body· Sunan Abi Dawud 4513 — the Prophet's illness; illness and the sick· Sahih al-Bukhari 4122 — visiting the sick; the organs of the body· Sahih al-Bukhari 463 — visiting the sick; the organs of the body· al-Bayhaqi's Dala'il al-Nubuwwa, scan volume 1, p. 1896 — cupping; the Prophet's illness· al-Bayhaqi's Dala'il al-Nubuwwa, scan volume 1, p. 2079 — medicine and the physician; pain· al-Bayhaqi's Dala'il al-Nubuwwa, scan volume 2, p. 268 — cupping; pain

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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.