Avicenna Canon of Medicine Volume 4: Systemic Diseases, Orthopedics and Cosmetics - Hardcover

Avicenna; Hamidreza Doostdar Translator

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567448348 ISBN 13: 9781567448344

Publisher: Kazi Publications, Inc., 2014

Synopsis

Volume 4 of the Canon contains seven parts: Part 22: On Dysfunctions in Various Parts of the Body, Avicenna gives a detailed analysis of the pain that comes from various physical dysfunctions. Part 23: On fevers is a famous section, often published on its own in the Latin translation. Part 24: On Diagnosis Based on Symptoms includes a discussion on what a medical crisis is and how to deal with it. Part

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The Prince of Physicians, Abu Ali ibn Sina (Avicenna) (b. 370/980) was born in Bukhara. By the age of ten he had learned the entire Quran as well as grammar and then began the study of logic and mathematics. Once these subjects were mastered, he studied physics, metaphysics and medicine. By the age of sixteen he had mastered all of the sciences of his day except metaphysics. While he had read Aristotle s Metaphysics over and over again and had even memorized it, he could not understand it until he read al-Farabi's commentary on it. Avicenna was then eighteen years old. He was favored by the ruler of Bukhara because of his mastery of medicine, but when he was thirty-two, he was forced to migrate because of the political situation in his home town area. He migrated to Jurjan on the southeast coast of the Caspian Sea in an attempt to join the court of the well-known Qabus ibn Wushmgir. This never materialized as the ruler had died in 1013 during Avicenna s travels to Jurjan. Avicenna then retired to a village near Jurjan where he was to meet his disciple-to-be, al-Juzjani. Al-Juzjani was devoted to Avicenna and was to write commentaries upon his works as well as to preserve copies of all of the master s writings. It was in Jurjan in 1012 that Avicenna wrote the beginning of his great medical text, The Canon (al-Qanun) on medicine. Avicenna remained in Jurjan for two or three years before moving to Rey in 405/1014 or 406/1015, a city near present day Tehran and from there to Hamadan in the northwest Iran. He became a minister in the Buyuid Court of Shams al-Dawlah as well as the court physician. Once again Avicenna was obliged to migrate because of the unstable political conditions in Hamadan so he moved to Isfahan where he enjoyed a fifteen year period of peace, writing many of his major works at that time. Eventually, however, he was forced to migrate once again and moved back to Hamadan where he died in 428/1037.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kazi Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567448348
• ISBN 13: 9781567448344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 992
• Editor: Laleh Bakhtiar