Avicenna Canon of Medicine Volume 1 by Avicenna

Ibn Sina divided his Canon of Medicine into five books. 7 Indeed, Ibn Sina's Canon remained the most popular medical textbook in the world over the subsequent six centuries. Although the Syrian physician Ibn al-Ibri (known as Bar Hebraeus), who died in 1286, judged this book to include more practical clinical advice than the Canon, he records that publication of the latter soon eclipsed memory of the former. The most celebrated medical book prior to the publication of Ibn Sina's Canon was the Complete Book of the Medical Art (Kitab Kamil al-sinaàh al-tibbiyyah) composed about 983 by Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Majusi. Ibn Sina had intended to include his clinical case-notes in the book, but the paper on which they were written was lost before he was able to do so. 4,5 The Canon was completed in Hamadan even further southwest, where Ibn Sina died in 1037 CE (428 H). Ibn Sina began writing his major medical composition, Kitab al-Qanun fi al-tibb ( Canon of Medicine), in Jorjan (also written as Gorgan) at the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea, and continued its composition in Rayy, an important medieval city south of modern Tehran, where two other great medical writers in Arabic, al-Razi and Ibn Hindu, were born. His knowledge soon began to exceed that of his teachers. He studied logic, philosophy, metaphysics and natural sciences, and gradually developed an interest in medicine. Ibn Sina's studies began in Bukhara under the guidance of several well-known scholars of the time, for example, Abu Abd Allah al-Natili. Despite this, he managed to write several outstanding books, which went on to influence the concepts and principles of scholars for centuries. This was one of the reasons that Ibn Sina had to move several times during his life.

3 Bukhara had been for centuries the glory of the Persian Empire, but the empire was falling apart into smaller kingdoms under the pressure of Arab invasions. The enduring respect in the 21st century for a book written a millennium earlier is testimony to Ibn Sina's achievement.Ību Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina (known as Avicenna in Europe) was born about 980 CE (370 H), near Bukhara, where his family moved soon after his birth. a In contrast, Osler shunned intervention in his Principles and Practice of Medicine. Ibn Sina tells his readers, for example, how to judge the margin of healthy tissue to remove with an amputation. He opted for Ibn Sina's Canon because the book presents an integrated view of surgery and medicine. 2 Urquhart asked himself which of the two books he would want if he was marooned and in need of a guide for practical medicine. 1012) with Osler's Principles and Practice of Medicine. In his Al Hammadi Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, John Urquhart, 1 professor of biopharmaceutical sciences at the University of California at San Francisco, contrasted Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine (c.

Avicenna Canon of Medicine Volume 1 by Avicenna