Author: Abu Ali Al-Husayn Ibn Abd Allah Ibn Sina

Publisher: Kazi Publications

Size/Vol.: 23 x 16 x 5.8 cm

ISBN : 1871031672

Language : English

-Binding: Hardback

- Pages: 710

- The Canon of Medicine is divided into five books. The first contains generalities concerning the human body, sickness, health and general treatment and therapeutics (the only volume translated here).

- The second contains the materia medica and the pharmacology of herbs. Three methods: agreement, difference and concomitant variations are usually regarded as characteristic of modern science.

- The third book deals with special pathology, studied by organs, or rather by systems.

- The fourth book opens with the famous treatise on fevers; then follow the treatise on signs, symptoms, diagnostics and prognostics, minor surgery, tumors, wounds, fractures and bites and that on poisons.

- The fifth book contains the pharmacopoeia.

- Because the Canon constituted a monumental unity which maintained its authority until modern times it served as a basis for 700 years of medical teaching and practice and is a proven alternative medicine technique.