Ibn al-Qayyim's Zad al-Ma'ad, scan volume 1, p. 56 — the opening of the chest

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«… مالك بالماء، ضرب يده بعد ذٰلِكَ على الأرض، وكان إذا جلس لحاجته، لم يرفع ثوبَه حتّى يدنو مِن الأرض. فصل في هديه وعَطِ في في الفطرة وتوابعها قد سبق الخلاف هل وُلد وَاي مختوناً، أو خَتنته الملائكة يومَ شُقَّ صدرهُ …»

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

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Venesection, or bloodletting (al-fasd)· Setting fractures and dislocations (al-jabr wal-kasr)· Anatomy· Medical treatment (al-mu'alaja)· Treating the wounded in the Prophet's time (mudawat al-jarha)· Sunan Abi Dawud 2531 — the treatment of wounds; women treating the wounded· Sunan Abi Dawud 254 — surgery, circumcision and splints· Sunan Abi Dawud 2727 — the treatment of wounds; women treating the wounded

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Zad al-Ma'ad — Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

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Venesection, or bloodletting (al-fasd)

For Ibn Sina venesection is a general evacuation that relieves a plethora of the humours, one of the manual modes of treatment. The fourth fann of Book I gives it its own chapter, covering who may be bled and who should be spared, narrow and wide incisions, the six veins of the arm, and the danger of the artery lying under the basilic vein. The Canon treats cupping and leeches in the chapters that follow, so for Ibn Sina bloodletting is a different procedure from cupping.