القانون في الطب لابن سينا

The Law of Medicine by Ibn Sina is an Android application that contains an important and useful book on medicine and wisdom of Imam Ibn Sina, may God have mercy on him.

Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb is a medical encyclopedia divided into five volumes composed by the Muslim scientist, physician and philosopher Avicenna, issued in 1020 CE. The book is considered one of the most influential and reliable literature in the field of medicine in the world, as it was adopted as a basic reference for teaching medicine in many universities until the eighteenth century.

The book provides an overview of medical knowledge in the era of Islamic civilization, which was influenced by the teachings of traditional medicine in previous civilizations, such as ancient Roman medicine, such as the works of Galen, ancient Persian medicine, Chinese and Indian medicine. He explained the appendix and how to remove it, as Ibn Sina revealed many scientific, experimental and laboratory theories.

The Canon of Medicine is considered one of the most important scientific books, and although it was developed nearly ten centuries ago and before the discovery of many scientific and experimental theories and modern laboratories, it is still an important reference, and the basic rule in hospitalization and the formulation of medicines.

The reason for writing the book

Ibn Sina said about the reason for writing this book: “Some of my brothers and sisters have sought from me, and whom I need to help with what is permitted.

Contents of the law book

Book One: General Matters of Medicine

It is about the universal issues in the science of medicine, and it contains four arts:

Medicine and its subjects.

Diseases, causes and overall symptoms.

Health, disease, and the necessity of death.

Faces of treatments according to total diseases.

Avicenna first establishes the basic structures, or logical categories, by which he organizes medical practice.

This book, called The Faculties, contains generalities about human anatomy, health, and disease as well as general remedies, lifestyle, diet, and Hippocratic medicine and pathology, and develops in it the pulse and urine control.

Book Two: Single Medicines

This book deals with the pharmacology of simple drugs: mineral, plant and animal, and consists of two parts:

The first part deals with identifying treatments through experience, which approaches a "modern" analysis by noting the known effects of each treatment, determining appropriate doses, and searching for drugs that can be preserved without spoiling. These are the first known rules of the rational search for new drugs.

In defining single drug combinations.

In knowing the mixtures of single drugs by experience.

In knowing the mixtures of single drugs by analogy.

Knowing the actions of the forces of single drugs.

In provisions exposed to drugs from outside.

Picking up and storing medicines.

The second part presents about 800 drug studies,

Actions and properties.

in adornment.

in tumors and pustules.

In surgery and ulcers.

in joint machines.

in the head members.

in the organs of the eye.

In the organs of the soul and chest.

in the food organs.

in the members of the twitch.

in diets.

in toxins.

Book Three: Partial Diseases

This book deals with “partial diseases”, and groups them according to the body’s organs and/or vital systems in the body, “from head to heel”, and analyzes each disease in an anatomical, physiological, clinical and diagnostic analysis.

It includes:

Head and brain diseases.

Nerve diseases.

Eye anatomy.

ear conditions.

Nasal conditions.

Oral and tongue conditions.

Dental conditions.

Conditions of the gums and lips.

Throat conditions.

Lung and chest conditions.

Heart conditions.

Breast and its conditions.

esophagus and stomach;

Liver and its conditions.

Conditions of the gallbladder and spleen.

Intestinal and scrotal conditions.

Reasons for the seat.

College conditions.

Bladder and urine conditions.

The conditions of the reproductive organs of the males.

Conditions of the reproductive organs.

Visible and peripheral diseases.

Book Four: General Diseases

This book is dedicated to general diseases, and contains a study of fever, followed by a study of symptoms, diagnoses, prognosis, minor surgery, tumors, wounds, fractures, and bites, as well as a section dealing with poisons. It also treats obesity and weight loss in addition to cosmetic treatments.

Explanations of the law book and its summaries

Ibn Sina’s book Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb received many explanations, including:

Explanation of the anatomy of the law by Ibn al-Nafis.

Explanation of the law by Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.

Explanation of the law to Qutb al-Din Ibrahim al-Masry.

Explanation of the colleges of Ibn Sina to Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi.

Explanation of the law to David of Antioch.