Ibn al-Qayyim's Zad al-Ma'ad, scan volume 1, p. 530 — the stages of the embryo

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«… اللّه! ائذن لي امتدحك، فقال رسول اللّٰه في : قل: لا يَفْضُضِ اللّهُ فَاكَ فقال : مِنْ قَبْلِهَا طِبْتَ في الظَّلَالِ وَفِي مُسْتَوْدَعٍ حَيْثُ يُخْصَفُ الوَرَقُ ثَمَّ هَبَطْتَ البِلَادَ لَا بَشَرّ أَنْتَ وَلَا مُضْغَةٌ وَلَا عَلَقُ بَلْ نُطْفَةٌ تَرْكَبُ السَّفِينَ …»

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Setting fractures and dislocations (al-jabr wal-kasr)· Surgery, the work of the hand (al-jiraha)· Medicine· Sunan Abi Dawud 1285 — the joints of the body· Sunan Abi Dawud 1286 — the joints of the body· Sunan Abi Dawud 182 — the stages of the embryo· Sunan Abi Dawud 202 — the organs of the body· Sunan Abi Dawud 2195 — the stages of the embryo

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Zad al-Ma'ad — Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

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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.