Avicenna on Medicine and its Topics From the Canon of Medicine Volume 1 (Laleh Bakhtiar)
Description
ISBN: 9781567449860
Author: Laleh Bakhtiar
Publisher: Great Books of the Islamic World Inc. (1999)
Pages: 95 Binding: Paperback 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.25"
Description from the publisher:
Ibn Sina goes on to say that you do not get any benefit from just knowing how your body works, but rather the true benefit of medicine itself is in its practical aspect, since medicine is for the preservation of health. That which is speculative named theory relates to the formation of opinions and the showing of the evidence upon which they are based, without reference to the mode of acting upon them. Thus this part deals with the temperaments, the humors, the drives, and with the forms, the symptoms, and the causes of disease. That which is specially named practical relates to the mode of acting upon this knowledge, and the prescription of a regimen.