The Canon of Medicine (The Law of Natural Healing): Systemic Diseases, Ortopedics and Cosmetics: 4 - Hardcover

Avicenna

9781567448344: The Canon of Medicine (The Law of Natural Healing): Systemic Diseases, Ortopedics and Cosmetics: 4

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ISBN 10: 1567448348 ISBN 13: 9781567448344

Verlag: Kazi Pubns Inc, 2015

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Volume 4, translated for the first time in English, contains seven parts. Part 22: On Dysfunctions in Various Parts of the Body, Avicenna gives a detailed analysis of the pain that comes from various physical dysfunctions. Part 23: On Fevers is a famous section of his Canon, often published on its own in the Latin translation. Part 24: On Diagnosis Based on Symptoms includes a discussion on what a medical crisis is and how to deal with it. Part 25: On Swellings and Pimples includes these illnesses as part of Systemic Diseases along with Part 26: On the Loss of Continuity. Part 26 essentially deals with the importance of energy in Avicennian medicine and the resulting illnesses when the movement of energy is disrupted causing a loss of continuity in its flow. Part 27 describes Poisons and Part 28 the Cosmetic Art. Contains an index of the contents indexed by healing properties.

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Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina is better known in Europe by the Latinized name Avicenna. He was born in Afshana near Bukhara in Central Asia in about 973 CE. This part of Central Asia at that time was part of the Persian Empire. Avicenna is best known as a physician whose major work, the Canon (al-Qanun fi'l-Tibb), continued to be taught as a medical textbook in Europe and in the Islamic world until the early modern period.

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