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Avicenna's medicine : a new translation of the 11th-century canon with practical applications for integrative health care / Mones Abu-Asab, Hakima Amri, Marc S. Micozzi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avicenna, 980-1037.
- Standardized Title:
- Qānūn fī al-ṭibb. Kitāb 1. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Arab.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Materia medica--Early works to 1800.
- Materia medica.
- Medicine, Unani.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine, Unani.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Penman, Sharon Kay (donor) (Van Pelt copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, Vt. : Healing Arts Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- "The first contemporary translation of the 1,000-year-old text at the foundation of modern medicine and biology"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Primer : concepts of Unani medicine
- Topics of medicine
- The Unani elements : the basics or origins
- The theory of temperaments
- The humors
- The organs according to Avicenna
- A general view of the faculties and actions
- Diseases
- Diseases, causes, and symptoms
- Symptoms and signs
- Introduction
- Raising children
- Common regimen of adults
- Health management of the elderly
- Management of the distempered body
- Transitions/seasonal management
- Treatments according to general diseases.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 446-448) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Given to the Penn Libraries by Sharon Kay Penman
- ISBN:
- 9781594774324
- 1594774323
- 1620551705
- 9781620551707
- OCLC:
- 819088498
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