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Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 3, p. 120 — illness and the sick; fever

القانون في الطب لابن سينا ج3، ص 120 — المرض والمريض، الحمى

An excerpt from Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine, vol. 3, p. 120, that mentions illness and the sick, fever, named diseases, the hospital and the medical craft; from the machine-read scan, quoted within forty words per the sources policy.

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«… إلى سبات، وتواتر شديد من النبض، وتقدم سهر مؤذ. وما كان بسبب إسهال تجد الإسهال قد تقدّم، وأفرط. وما كان من جوع تجد ذلك حادثاً بتدريج لا دُفعة، ومما يؤكد أنّه من المرض فقدان تلك الأسباب، وشدّة حدّة الحمّى وإحساس …»

A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources

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Simple and compound drugs (al-adwiya al-mufrada wal-murakkaba)· Setting fractures and dislocations (al-jabr wal-kasr)· Prophetic medicine (al-tibb al-nabawi)· Theriac and poisons (al-tiryaq wal-sumum)· Anatomy· Disease (al-marad)· The four elements (al-arkan)· Health (al-sihha)

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  • The Canon of Medicine, vol. 3 (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1999)
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Simple and compound drugs (al-adwiya al-mufrada wal-murakkaba)

Book II of the Canon is on simple drugs, and its first part sets out the natural rules for knowing them in six treatises, among them the knowing of their temperaments by experiment and by analogy. For experiment Ibn Sina sets seven conditions, among them that the drug be free of an accidental quality, that the illness be a single one, and that the trial be on the human body. Book V is on compound drugs, the pharmacopoeia (al-aqrabadhin), and opens with a treatise on why compounding is needed.