Ibn Sina / Avicenna - Saab Medical Library

Book IV: Diseases involving more than one member. The cosmetic art
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Part 1 of the seven parts, General discourse on fevers, 2 treatises
Treatise 1, on one day fever
	Chapter on essential nature (substance) of fever	1
	Chapter on those prone to fevers	1
	Chapter on timings of fevers	1
	Chapter on recognizing timings of the disease especially its termination (ending)	2
	Chapter on a general discourse on one day fevers	2
	Signs	3
	Signs of transformation of a one day fever	3
	Signs of transmittance of a one day fever to other kinds of fevers	3
	Chapter on treatment of one day fevers in general	3
	Chapter on kinds of one day fevers	4
	Chapter on depression (sadness) fever	4
	Treatments	4
	Chapter on a one day fever due to worry (concern)	4
	Chapter on a one day fever due to excessive cogitation	4
	Chapter on a one day fever due to anger	4
	Chapter on a one day fever due to staying up (awake) at night	4
	Treatment	4
	Chapter on a one day fever due to sleep and relaxation	4
	Signs	4
	Treatment	5
	Chapter on a one day fever due to excessive joy	5
	Signs	5
	Treatment	5
	Chapter on a one day fever due to being afraid (scared frightened, terrified)	5
	Signs	5
	Treatment	5
	Chapter on a one day fever due to fatigue (exhaustion)	5
	Signs	5
	Treatment	5
	Chapter on a one day fever due to vomiting	5
	Treatment	5
	Chapter on a one day fever due to pain	5
	Signs	5
	Treatment	5
	Chapter on a one day fever due to fainting (syncope)	5
	Sign	5
	Treatment	5
	Chapter on a one day fever due to hunger	5
	Treatment	5
	Chapter on a one day fever due to thurst	6
	Treatment	6
	Chapter on a one day fever due to infarction	6
	Signs	6
	Treatment	6
	Chapter on a one day fever due to fullness (dyspepsia)	6
	Signs	7
	Treatment	7
	Chapter on a one day fever due to swellings	7
	Signs	7
	Treatments	7
	Chapter on a one day fever due to living in misery (neglecting daily habits [like bathing])	7
	Treatment	7
	Chapter on a one day fever due to heat	8
	Signs	8
	Treatment	8
	Chapter on a one day fever due to cold water [bathing in]	8
	Treatment	8
	Chapter on a one day fever due to astringent water	8
	Sign	8
	Treatment	8
	Chapter on a one day fever due to alcoholic drinks	8
	Chapter on a one day fever due to (hot) foods	8
Treatise 2, general discourse on fevers due to putridity
	Chapter on a general discourse on signs of fevers due to putridity	9
	Chapter on signs of persistent (fever)	10
	Chapter on points (issues) some of which differ and some are in common with putridity fevers	10
	Chapter on signs of fevers symptoms	10
	Chapter on discourse on ague (feverish chill) and coldness (chilliness) and shivering and (to feel as if) fragmented	11
	Chapter on indicating full treatment of putridity fevers	11
	Chapter on nourishing those having fever	13
	Chapter on code regarding drinking oxymel and barely water	14
	Chapter on treatments, first on treatments of severe fevers	14
	Chapter on mentioning symptoms which intensify in severe fevers	15
	Chapter on managing ague (feverish chill) and shivering and coldness (chilliness) when becoming excessive	15
	Chapter on managing excessive sweating in fevers`	16
	Chapter on managing excessive nose bleeding	16
	Chapter on managing excessive vomiting which afflicts them	16
	Chapter on managing diarrhea which afflicts them	16
	Chapter on managing their excessive thirst	16
	Chapter on lethargy which afflicts them	16
	Chapter on managing their head heaviness	16
	Chapter on insomnia (sleeplessness) of those with fever and others	17
	Chapter on abdomen pain	17
	Chapter on roughness (coarseness) or viscidity of their tongues	17
	Chapter on their insistent sneezing	17
	Chapter on their headaches	17
	Chapter on managing their coughing	17
	Chapter on their loss of appetite (anorexia)	17
	Chapter on their bulimia	17
	Chapter on blackness of their tongue	18
	Chapter on fainting (syncope) which afflicts them	18
	Chapter on their having difficulty in breathing	18
	Chapter on their intense anguish	18
	Chapter on difficulty in swallowing which afflicts them	18
	Chapter on coldness of their limbs which afflicts them	18
	Chapter on general discourse on biliary fever	18
	Chapter on tertian fever called [Taritaos]	18
	Treatment of the true tertian fever	19
	The accompanying symptoms of tertian fever	19
	Treatment of the untrue tertian fever	20
	Chapter on burning fever known as [Farikos]	20
	Signs	21
	Treatment of the burning fever	21
	A good tried pill	21
	Chapter on blood fever	21
	Signs	22
	Treatment of blood fever	22
	On their nourishment	22
	Chapter on phlegmatic fever	22
	Signs of the phlegmatic fever known as [Amphimirnous]	22
	Signs of the persistent fever called [lathqa]	23
	Chapter on the fever in which chilliness is concealed and hotness is apparent [Igialos]	23
	Chapter on the fever in which hotness in concealed and chillness is apparent, known as[Lygoria]	23
	Chapter on the fever in which each of the 2 states is found in one of the 2 locations	24
	Chapter on the humor trance (or syncopic) fever	24
	Chapter on the day and night fever of the phlegmatic (fever)	24
	Treatment of the phlegmatic	24
	Prescription of the Ipomoea turpenthum R.BR medicine	25
	Good tried pills	26
	Good tried cooked Prescription	26
	On their nourishments	26
	Rectification of their discharge if in excess	26
	Rectification of their diarrhea if in excess	26
	A pill for fever accompanied by chillness	26
	Treatment of the phlegmatic (fever) known as the persistent fever	26
	Treatment of [Anphyalos] and [Lygoria]	27
	Treatment of the humour trance (or syncopic) fever	27
	Treatment of the thin delicate tender trance (or syncopic) fever	27
	Managing the day and night (fever)	27
	Chapter of the quartan fever known as[ Titratlos]	27
	On signs	27
	Treatment	28
	Also a pill with its prescription	29
	Mentioning of laxatives they need	30
	Prescription of a light pill	30
	Nourishment of those with persistent quartan fever	30
	Treatment of persistnet quartan fever	30
	Chapter on fifth, sixth and seventh fevers and the like, known as phymatos in Greek, and others call it Dawara	30
	Treatment of these kinds of fevers	31
	Chapter on the hectic fever	31
	Signs	31
	Signs of flag (whithering)	32
	Treatment of the hectic fever	32
	Cooling medicines	32
	Another regimen	32
	Soothing medicines	32
	On nourishing those with hectic fever	33
	On rectifying the states following hectic fever	33
	On formulation	33
	Chapter on old age hectic fever	34
	Signs	34
	Treatment of old age hectic fever	34
	Chapter on epidermic fevers and the like, that is smallpox (variola) and measles (Rubeola)	34
	Discourse on epidemic fevers	34
	Signs	34
	Signs of the epidemic	35
	Treatments of the epidemic fever	35
	Protection from an epidemic	35
	Chapter on smallpox (Variola)	35
	Signs of smallpox	36
	Chapter on measles (Rubeola)	36
	Treatment	36
	Its formulation	37
	In winter, should have a continuous fire of tamarix	37
	Chapter on taking care of the organs and precautions against smallpox and measles (rubeola)	37
	Chapter on removing the traces of smallpox	38
	Chapter on fevers due to swellings	38
	Chapter on their signs and sequences	38
	Their treatment	38
	Chapter on states of compound fevers	39
	Chapter on tertian and phlegmatic fevers	39
	Chapter on signs of tertian and phlegmatic fevers	39
	In this fever the third day is like the first and the fourth is like the second	39
	Chapter on treatment of tertian and phlegmatic fevers	40
	Its formulation	40
	Another for the inflamed	40
	Other pills	40
	Another good formulation	40
	Chapter on relapse	40
Part 2, on presenting information and principles on delirium, 2 treatises
Treatise 1, on delirium and ways to identify it, and identify the good and the bad one
	Chapter on delirium, what is it, and on its sections and sequences	41
	Chapter on a general discourse on signs of delirium	42
	Chapter on signs of matter movement upwards, in delirium	43
	Chapter on signs of vomit	43
	Chapter on detailing all these signs	43
	Chapter on the sequence of these mentioned common signs and on particular (signs)	44
	Chapter on signs of the tendency of matter to turn to sweat	44
	Chapter on signs of the tendency of matter to turn to the urinary organs	44
	Chapter on signs of the tendency of matter to turn to the excrement path	44
	Chapter on signs indicating that delirium may be from the womb (due menstruation)	44
	Chapter on signs indicating that delirium is due to swelling in the blood vessels of the buttocks	44
	Chapter on signs that delirium is shifting	44
	Chapter on sign that shifting is downwards	45
	Chapter on sign that shifting is upwards	45
	Chapter on signs that it is developing into a different disease	45
	Chapter on signs of an abscessed delirium	45
	Chapter on sequences of such abscess	45
	Chapter on signs of convulsions (spasms)	46
	Chapter on signs of a feverish chill	46
	Chapter on signs indicating a good delirium	46
	Chapter on signs indicating a bad delirium	46
	Chapter on sequences of signs indicating bad delirium	46
	Chapter on signs of full development and its sequences	46
	Chapter on sequences of signs in general	46
	Chapter on mentioning the good signs	46
	Chapter on sequences of the bad signs	47
	Chapter on mentioning the bad signs	47
	Chapter on bad signs related to appearance and color	47
	Chapter on signs derived from the headache	47
	Chapter on bad signs derived from the senses	47
	Chapter on signs in the eye	47
	Chapter on signs derived from the nose	48
	Chapter on signs derived from the ear	48
	Chapter on signs derived from the teeth	48
	Chapter on signs derived from the tongue and mouth and what follows	48
	Chapter on signs derived from the states of the throat and the esophagus and surroundings	48
	Chapter on signs derived form the stomach and its tip	49
	Chapter on bad signs derived from the breathing organs	49
	Chapter on signs derived from the shape of the blood vessels	49
	Chapter on bad signs derived from slackening of the body and recumbency and feebleness	49
	Chapter on signs derived from situation of recumbency	49
	Chapter on bad signs derived from the skin	49
	Chapter on signs derived from the abdomen and around the epigastrium	49
	Chapter on signs derived from the buttocks	49
	Chapter on signs derived from the penis and the testicles	49
	Chapter on signs derived from the wombs	49
	Chapter on bad signs derived from the limbs	49
	Chapter on signs derived from timing of sleep and wakefulness	50
	Chapter on bad signs derived from the action of the hand	50
	Chapter on signs derived from pains	50
	Chapter on signs derived from the voice and speech and silence	50
	Chapter on signs derived from the brain	50
	Chapter on signs derived from movements	50
	Chapter on signs derived from delusions	50
	Chapter on signs derived from yawning and stretching	50
	Chapter on signs derived from dreams	50
	Chapter on signs derived from appetite and thurst	50
	Chapter on sequences and deductions from jaundice	51
	Chapter on signs derived from swellings	51
	Chapter on signs derived from shape of pustule and the like	51
	Chapter on signs derived from the shape of blood vessels	51
	Chapter on signs derived from feverish chills	51
	Chapter on sequences of vomiting	51
	Chapter on sequences of sweating	51
	Chapter on abundant sweating	51
	Chapter on difference in sweating among organs and the contrary	52
	Chapter on difference in sweating states and others	52
	Chapter on days with abundant sweating and those with little (sweating)	52
	Chapter on indications from states of the sweat	52
	Chapter on signs derived from sweating	52
	Chapter on signs derived from pulse	52
	Chapter on sequences of nosebleeding	53
	Chapter on signs derived from nosebleeding	53
	Chapter on signs derived from sneeze	53
	Chapter on sequences of feces	53
	Chapter on sequences of vomit	53
	Chapter on signs derived from vomit	53
	Chapter on sequences of the urine	53
	Chapter on urinary signs derived from little or abundant (urine)	54
	Chapter on signs derived from thinness of urine	54
	Chapter on signs derived form thickness of components and turbidity (of urine)	54
	Chapter on sequences of white urine in severe diseases	54
	Chapter on black urine in severe diseases	54
	Chapter on the red color of urine in severe diseases	54
	Chapter on signs derived form urinary sediment	55
	Chapter on signs derived from gathered states due to different signs in color and urine components, and first in fatty urines	55
	Chapter on bad signs derived from the way the urine separates	55
	Chapter on several bad signs in urine	55
	Chapter on bad signs in sick people when different signs get assembled in one sick person	56
	Chapter on signs of a long duration sickness	56
	Chapter on signs that sickness will be over following a delirium or a release	56
	Chapter on sequences of a relapse	56
	Chapter on signs of a relapse	57
	Chapter on causes of death	57
	Chapter on types of death which afflict during fevers and signs on how thesick will die	57
	Chapter on signs of death without delirium	57
	Chapter on states of exposure (to a relapse), after convalescence	57
	Chapter on managing the convalescent	58
	Chapter on nourishing the convalescent	58
	Chapter on actions of sickness	58
Treatise 2, of part 2, on timings of delirium, its days (duration), and its fits
	Chapter on initiation of illness, and reckoning its start	59
	Chapter on cause of delirium days and fits	59
	Chapter on comparing delirium days with each other regarding strength, weakness and in comparison to illnesses	60
	Chapter on delirium days of middle category	60
	Chapter on delirium days of middle category and its weakness	60
	Chapter on good and bad days in sequence whether delirious or set in the middle or warning days	61
	Chapter on days which are not delirious, and not in the first or second categories	61
	Chapter on warning days	61
	Chapter on knowing the delirium days if in doubt	61
	Chapter on illustrating the relationship between delirium days and most illness	62
Part 3, Comprehensive discourse on swelling and pustules, 3 treatises
Treatise 1, on the hot and bad (swellings and pustules)
	Chapter on hot swellings and pustules	62
	Chapter on phlegmonous (phlelgmonosis)	62
	Chapter on treatment of phlegmonous	63
	Chapter on erysipelas and its types	63
	Chapter on treatment of erysipelas	64
	Chapter on millet dartre	64
	Chapter on treatment of dartre	64
	Chapter on millet darter from the darter types	64
	Chapter on carbuncle and persian fire (erysipelas) and others	64
	Chapter on treatment of the carbuncle and Persian fire	65
	Chapter on blisters (vesicants) and swellings (intumescences)	65
	Chapter on treatment of blisters (vesicants) and swellings (intumescences)	65
	- Prescription of a compound medicine	65
	- A good tried old medicine adopted by some contemporary (people)	65
	Chapter on Cnidosis	66
	Chapter on treatment of cnidosis	66
	Chapter on gangrenous sore and deterioration of an organ and difference between gangrene and bone decay gangrene	66
	Chapter on treatment	66
	Chapter on plagues	67
	Chapter on treatment	67
	Chapter on swellings in the glands	67
	Chapter on hot abscess (abscessus)	67
	Chapter on signs indicating if the swelling is an abscess	68
	Chapter on indications of maturity and its sign	68
	Chapter on states of pus	68
	Chapter on signs of an interior abscess	68
	Chapter on signs of maturity of the interior abscess	68
	Chapter on signs indicating closeness of the interior (abscess) to outburst	68
	Chapter on treatment of external abscess	69
	Chapter on managing the maturity and using artifice to cause suppuration inan external abscess	69
	Chapter on managing external abscess when mature	69
	Chapter on outburst of external (abscess)	70
	Chapter on managing an internal abscess	70
	Chapter on the furuncles	71
	Chapter on treatment of furuncles	71
	Chapter on hemorrhoids	71
Treatise 2, on cold swellings and what goes on with it of cold humors and what goes on with it in the body, of phlegm and melancholia and flatus and the compound ones, which are known
	Chapter on phlegmatic loose swelling known as edema	71
	Chapter on the treatment of a loose swelling	71
	Chapter on chap	72
	Chapter on treatment of chap	72
	Chapter on glands (glandular swellings)	73
	Treatment	73
	Chapter on glandular pustules	73
	Chapter on swelling behind the ear [Fojthela]	73
	Chapter on scrofula (king’s evil)	73
	Treatment	73
	Prescription of a good medicine	73
	Chapter on solid swellings	74
	Treatment	74
	Chapter on rheumatism	75
	Chapter on what is known as cornes (on the toes)	75
	Chapter on cancer	75
	Chapter on treatment	75
	Chapter on managing to loosen it	75
	Chapter on mentioning topical medicines for cancer	75
	Chapter on flatulence swellings and distention of muscles	76
	Chapter on treatment	76
	Good moderate lotion	76
	Chapter on [Madini] vein	76
	Chapter on treatment	76
Treatise 3, on leprosy
	Chapter on what is leprosy and its cause	77
	Chapter on signs	77
	Chapter on treatment	78
	Cooked [medicine] for leprotics	78
	Formulation of a snuff	78
	Compound medicines good for them	79
	Cream formulation known as [Bizrijli Al Akbar] (grand bizri- acompound medicine)	79
	Cream formulation [Al Salakha] base on (urine of the Ibex-mountain goat)	79
	Burned steel formulation	79
	Formulation known as [Al Salakha al soughra] (based on urine of the Ibex-mountain goat)	80
	A good medicine formulation for leprosy	80
	A leprosy liniment formulation	80
	Another liniment formulation	80
Part 4, On loss of continuity, except what is related to fracture and splinting, 4 treatises
Treatise 1, general discourse on wounds (cuts, injuries)
	Chapter on a general discourse on loss of continuity	80
	Chapter on generalities regarding wounds (cuts)	80
	Chapter on a general discourse on treatment of wounds	81
	Chapter on defining the strength of medicines which promote (growth) and which fuse and which are erosive	81
	Chapter on slitting open the wound and other if it is to be uncovered	82
	Chapter on managing wounds with swellings and with pain	82
	Chapter on managing wounds of bowels, internal and apparent (external)	82
	Chapter on method to swathe wounds	83
	Chapter on medicines which fuse wounds	84
	Chapter on medicines which heal and seal wounds and others	84
	Prescription of a linen cream