Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, p. 578 — named diseases; the hospital and the medical craft

القانون في الطب لابن سينا ج1، ص 578 — أسماء الأمراض، البيمارستان وصناعة الطب

An excerpt from Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, p. 578, that mentions named diseases, the hospital and the medical craft, the organs of the body, surgery, circumcision and splints, the treatment of wounds; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… أورام البلغم والريح. الجراح والقروح : بالخل الثقيف على تقرّح الجرب يضمد بها حاراً. أعضاء النفس والصدر : يليّن الصدر بجلائه، وخصوصاً حسو مائه بالسكر مع دهن اللوز، ويبلّ بالشراب، فينفع من أورام الثدي. أعضاء النفض : يحرّك الأمعاء على …»

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Mentions: 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.