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Ibn al-Nafis's Commentary on the Anatomy of the Canon, p. 3 — medicine and the physician; the organs of the body

شرح تشريح القانون لابن النفيس، ص 3 — الطب والطبيب، أعضاء البدن

An excerpt from Ibn al-Nafis's Commentary on the Anatomy of the Canon, p. 3, that mentions medicine and the physician, the organs of the body, cauterising a wound; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… يعرف به أوضاع الأعضاء بعضها من بعض فلا يحدث عند البط ونحوه قطع شريان، أو عصب، ونحو ذلك. وكذلك لا يقطع ليف بعض العضلات في البط ونحوه. وذلك لأجل تعرفه مذاهب ألياف العضل. وأما انتفاع الطبيب بهذا الفن في الاستدلال، …»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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

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Setting fractures and dislocations (al-jabr wal-kasr)· al-Bayhaqi's Dala'il al-Nubuwwa, scan volume 2, p. 268 — cupping; pain· 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. 1361 — illness and the sick; pain· al-Razi's al-Hawi fi al-Tibb, p. 1661 — sickness; the hospital and the medical craft

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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.