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Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, p. 311 — illness and the sick; pain

القانون في الطب لابن سينا ج1، ص 311 — المرض والمريض، الوجع

An excerpt from Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, p. 311, that mentions illness and the sick, pain, named diseases, treatment, the organs of the body, surgery, circumcision and splints; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… نبدأ بعلاج المرض، إلا أن يغلبه العرض، فحينئذ نقصد فصد العرض ولا نلتفت إلى المرض، كما نسقي المخدّرات في القولنج الشديد الوجع إذا صعب، وإن كان يضرّ نفس القولنج، وكذلك ربما أخرنا الواجب من الفصد لضعف المعدة أو لإسهال متقدّم …»

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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  • The Canon of Medicine, vol. 1 (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1999)
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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.