wmdaa.blogg.se - Avicenna Canon of Medicine Volume 1 by Avicenna

"Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the body in health, when not in health the means by which health is likely to be lost and, when lost, is likely to be restored. Avicenna believed that the human body cannot be restored to health unless the causes of both health and disease are determined. : 25–579 The book explains the causes of health and disease. Book 1 īook 1 is made up of six theses which give a general description of medicine in general, the cosmic elements that make up the cosmos and the human body, the mutual interaction of elements (temperaments), fluids of the body (humours), human anatomy, and physiology.

Diagnosis and treatment of conditions covering multiple body parts or the entire body.īooks 1, 3, and 4 are each further divided into parts ( fanns), chapters ( ta’līms), subchapters ( jumlahs), sections ( faṣls), and subsections ( bābs).

Diagnosis and treatment of diseases specific to one part of the body.

List of medical substances, arranged alphabetically, following an essay on their general properties.

Essays on basic medical and physiological principles, anatomy, regimen and general therapeutic procedures.

The Canon of Medicine is divided into five books: Overview įirst page of the introduction to the first book (Arabic manuscript, 1597) It served as a more concise reference in contrast to Galen's twenty volumes of medical corpus. The result was a "clear and ordered "summa" of all the medical knowledge of Ibn Sīnā's time". He began writing the Canon in Gorganj, continued in Rey and completed it in Hamadan in 1025. Avicenna sought to fit these traditions into Aristotle's natural philosophy. The medical traditions of Galen and thereby Hippocrates, had dominated Islamic medicine from its beginnings. The English title The Canon of Medicine is a translation of the Arabic title القانون في الطب ( al-Qānūn fī aṭ-Ṭibb), with "canon" (translated in English to "law") used in the sense of "law". It is an important text in Unani medicine, a form of traditional medicine practiced in India.

It set the standards for medicine in Medieval Europe and the Islamic world and was used as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe. The Canon of Medicine remained a medical authority for centuries. It presents an overview of the contemporary medical knowledge of the Islamic world, which had been influenced by earlier traditions including Greco-Roman medicine (particularly Galen), Persian medicine, Chinese medicine and Indian medicine. Perhaps one of the most famous and influential early books, that continued to influence later creations. The Canon of Medicine ( Arabic: القانون في الطب al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb Persian: قانون در طب, Qanun-e dâr Tâb) is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Persian physician-philosopher Avicenna ( ابن سینا, Ibn Sina) and completed in 1025.