![]() It served as a more concise reference in contrast to Galen's twenty volumes of medical corpus. The result was a "clear and ordered "summa" of all the medical knowledge of Ibn Sīnā's time". He began writing the Canon in Gorganj, continued in Rey and completed it in Hamadan in 1025. Avicenna sought to fit these traditions into Aristotle's natural philosophy. The medical traditions of Galen and thereby Hippocrates, had dominated Islamic medicine from its beginnings. The English title The Canon of Medicine is a translation of the Arabic title القانون في الطب ( al-Qānūn fī aṭ-Ṭibb), with "canon" (translated in English to "law") used in the sense of "law". It is an important text in Unani medicine, a form of traditional medicine practiced in India. It set the standards for medicine in Medieval Europe and the Islamic world and was used as a standard medical textbook through the 18th century in Europe. The Canon of Medicine remained a medical authority for centuries. It presents an overview of the contemporary medical knowledge of the Islamic world, which had been influenced by earlier traditions including Greco-Roman medicine (particularly Galen), Persian medicine, Chinese medicine and Indian medicine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps one of the most famous and influential early books, that continued to influence later creations. The Canon of Medicine ( Arabic: القانون في الطب al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb Persian: قانون در طب, Qanun-e dâr Tâb) is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Persian physician-philosopher Avicenna ( ابن سینا, Ibn Sina) and completed in 1025. ![]()
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