A summary of Ibn Sina's book "The Canon of Medicine"

 

A summary of Ibn Sina's book "The Canon of Medicine"

Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine is considered one of the most important foundational books he wrote in the field of medicine, and Muslim and European scholars relied on it for learning and medicine.

In general matters of medicine

In this chapter, Ibn Sina talked about various important topics in medicine, which are the limits of medical sciences and their topics, and he talked about naming and diagnosing diseases and describing their symptoms, then he talked about the causes and causes of good health.  He also discussed the necessity of death, and then referred to this section to discuss determining the appropriate types of treatment for each disease.

• We quote from this chapter the following: “Medicine is the science by which the conditions of the human body are known from the point of view of healthy and unhealthy, in order to preserve existing health and quickly restore it.

Pillars

In this chapter, Ibn Sina talked about the pillars, which are the simple or primary bodies that make up the human body and cannot be divided into different parts in the image. With them.  These pillars are the four corners: fire, air, water and earth.

•      We quote from this chapter the following: “The Earth is a simple body whose natural position is in the center of the whole, which of course is still and of course moves towards it if it is different.

The nature of the member and its divisions

In this chapter, Ibn Sina talked about the organs that are divided into two parts, which are simple members and compound members. In the name nor in the limit like the hand and the face.

We quote from this chapter the following: “Cartilage is softer than bone, so it bends, and it is more solid than the rest of the organs, the benefit in its formation is that it improves the connection of the bones with the organs soft.  So that hardness and softness are not combined without a middle ground, so that the soft is hurt by the hard.

Total speech in the nerve, muscle, tendon and ligament

In this chapter, Ibn Sina talked about the voluntary movements of the organs with a force that flows to them from the brain through the nerves, and the nerve does not connect to the bones, but God Almighty created in the bones something similar to the nerve. .  It's a ligament, so pick it up with the nerve as one block.

     We quote from this chapter the following: “If the nerve is engaged in moving the organs while it is of the proper size, especially when it is distributed, divided, and branched in the organs, and the individual bone portion becomes much thinner than the original. ”

Cranial anatomy

In this section, Ibn Sina talked about the bones of the skull, which are the bones of the skull, which are the protectors of the brain from damage and protection from plagues. 

We quote from this chapter the following: “There are two benefits common to the brain and two other things, one of which is related to the veins and arteries entering the head, so that they have a path and a benefit with respect to the brain. A thick and heavy veil.”

In the anatomy of the bones of the jaws and nose

In this section, Ibn Sina talked about the jaw, which consists of the upper jaw and the lower jaw, and the teeth and molars are arranged in them according to a precise and regular arrangement and arrangement. 

We quote from this chapter the following: “Of the sutures of the maxilla, the suture descends from the suture of the upper joint towards the eye, and on reaching the umbilicus, it divides into three branches: it passes below the suture of the joint with the forehead.