Avicenna A.K.A Ibn Sina Peak Presented by

Yandiry Saldana

The Father of Modern Medicine

Title:Sharaf al-Mulk, Hujjat al-Haq, Sheikh al-

RayeesBirth: approximately 980 CE / 370 AHDeath: 1037 CE / 428 AHEthnicity: Persian Region: Central Asia and PersiaBorn: In Persia Bukhara Province

The Man of the Hour

Avicenna (Greek Aβιτζιανός), was a Persian polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, physicist, poet, psychologist, scientist, soldier, statesman, and teacher.

Main Interests

Islamic medicine Alchemy

chemistry in Islam Islamic astronomy

Islamic ethics early Islamic philosophy

Islamic studies logic in Islamic philosophy

geography mathematics

Islamic psychological thought physics

Persian poetry science Kalam

Paleontologist

His Own School Avicennism

School tradition:

Is a school of early

Islamic philosophy which began during the middle of the Islamic Golden Age.

Founded by Avicenna (Ibn Sina) Attempted to redefine the course of Islamic

philosophy and channel it into new directions.

Cont. of his Avicennism School

The key to this philosophy is conceptualization of the world as contingent in itself but necessary with references to its causes, leading back to ultimately to the First Cause. The main innovations in this philosophy are the definite distinction of essence from existence and its relation to the cosmological proof he devised, the ontological argument for the existence of God from the metaphysics of contingency and necessity, his idea about knowledge and "individuality of the dissimbodied soul" and his "Floating Man" thought experiment.

Avicennism eventually became the leading school of Islamic philosophy by the 12th century and had become a central authority on philosophy by then.

Success

Ibn Sīnā wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine

Cont. of Success

His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine.

His books, which is a standard medical text at many Islamic and European universities. The Canon of Medicine was used as a text-book in the universities of Montpellier and Louvain as late as 1650

A Few of his DiscoveriesMedicine and Pharmacology

The introduction of: infectious diseases

quarantine to limit the spread of contagious diseases, experimental medicine

evidence-based medicine clinical trials

randomized controlled trials clinical pharmacology

neuropsychiatry risk factor analysis,

dietetics tuberculosis

diabetes heart as a valve

And the influence of climate and environment on health. momentum

aromatherapy steam distillation

extraction of essential oilsuniformitarianism and law of superposition in geology

modern clinical trials

Cont. Discoveries

The Canon of Medicine, 14-volume which was a standard medical text in Europe and the Islamic world up until the 18th century

A Latin copy of the Canon of Medicine, dated 1484, located at the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

dated 1593

Evidence Hot Cold Moist Dry

Morbid states

inflammations become febrile

fevers related to serious humour, rheumatism

lassitude loss of vigour

Functional power

deficient energy deficient digestive power difficult digestion

Subjective sensations

bitter taste, excessive thirst, burning at cardia

Lack of desire for fluids mucoid salivation, sleepiness insomnia, wakefulness

Physical signs

high pulse rate, lassitude flaccid jointsdiarrhea, swollen eyelids, rough

skin, acquired habitrough skin, acquired habit

Foods & medicines

calefacients harmful, infrigidants beneficial

infrigidants harmful, calefacients beneficial

moist articles harmfuldry regimen harmful,

humectants beneficial

Relation to weather

worse in summer worse in winter bad in autumn

Avicenna's Four Humours and Temperaments

Psychophysiology and Psychosomatic medicine

Recognized 'physiological psychology' in the treatment of illnesses involving emotions, and developed a system for associating changes in the pulse rate with inner feelings

Avicenna is reported to have treated a very ill patient by "feeling the patient's pulse and reciting aloud to him the names of provinces, districts, towns, streets, and people." He noticed how the patient's pulse increased when certain names were mentioned, from which Avicenna deduced that the patient was in love with a girl whose home Avicenna was "able to locate by the digital examination." Avicenna advised the patient to marry the girl he is in love with, and the patient soon recovered from his illness after his marriage.

Early Life Ibn Sina's was born with an extraordinary

intelligence and memory, which allowed him to overtake his teachers at the age of fourteen.

As he said in his autobiography there wasn't anything which he hadn't learned when he reached eighteen.

By the age of 10 he had memorized the Qur'an and a great deal of Persian poetry as well.

Cont. Early Life Ibn Sina's when a teenager, he was greatly troubled by

the Metaphysics of Aristotle, which he could not understand until he read al-Farabi's

He turned to medicine at age16 and attended of the sick He discovered new methods of treatment. At age 18 he was full status as a qualified physician

"Medicine is no hard and thorny science, like mathematics and metaphysics, so I soon made great progress; I became an excellent doctor and began to

treat patients, using approved remedies."

The youthful physician's fame spread quickly, and he treated many patients without asking for payment.

Reward

An Emir rewarded him for his services.

To the access of the royal library of the Samanids, well-known patrons of scholarship and scholars.

When the library was destroyed by fire not long after, the enemies of Ibn Sina accused him of burning it

EngineeringEncyclopedia Mi'yar al-'aql (The Measure of

the Mind)Science of ingenious devices:

simple machines lever pulley screw wedge, windlass

Lever

Levers can be used to exert a large force over a small distance at one end by exerting only a small force over a greater distance at the other.

PulleyA rope, cable or belt usually runs inside the

groove. Pulleys are used to change the direction of an applied force, transmit rotational motion, or realize a mechanical advantage in either a linear or rotational system of motion.

Screw Its main uses are as a threaded fastener

used to hold objects together, and as a simple machine used to translate torque into linear force.

Wedge It can be used to

separate two objects, or portions of objects, lift an object, or hold an object in place.

WindlassesUsed on boats to raise anchor as an

alternative to a vertical capstan. See anchor windlass.

Later lifeThe remaining ten or twelve years of Ibn

Sīnā's life were spent in the service of Abu Ja'far 'Ala Addaula, whom he accompanied as physician and general literary and scientific adviser, even in his numerous campaigns.

Literary matters and philology "I prefer a short life with width to a narrow

one with length".

Death He died in June 1037,

in his fifty-eighth year, and was buried in Hamedan, Iran

Poetry Originally written by Ibn Sīnā

اوج تا سیاه گل قعر زحلاز ,Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate

حل را گیتی مشکالت همه ,کردمI rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,

حیل و مکر هر زقید جستم ,بیرونAnd many Knots unravel'd by the Road;

اجل بند مگر شد گشاده بند .هرBut not the Master-Knot of Human Fate.

When some of his opponents blame him for blasphemy, he says نبود آسان و گزاف منی چو کفر The blasphemy of somebody like me is not easy and exorbitant نبود ایمان من ایمان از محکمتر There isn't any stronger faith than my faith کافر هم آن و یکی من چو دهر در If there is just one person like me in the world and that one is impious نبود مسلمان یک دهر همه در پس So there are no Muslims in the whole world.

The End

References

Edward  G. Browne (1921) Arabian Medicine, London, Cambridge University Press.

Ynez Viole O'Neill (1973) in Mcgraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of World Biography vol I: Aalto to Bizet.

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