![]() 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".
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