The Canon of Medicine

1. Book One

1.1. Book 1: six theses which give a general description of medicine in general, the cosmic elements that make up the cosmos and the human body, the mutual interaction of elements (temperaments), fluids of the body (humours), human anatomy, and physiology.

1.2. Published: 1025

2. Influence in Europe

2.1. Was translated into Latin as Canon medicinae by Gerard of Cremona

2.2. Was a main text in university courses by 1340

2.3. Sir William Osler described the Canon as "the most famous medical textbook ever written", noting that it remained "a medical bible for a longer time than any other work."

3. Four Humours of Hippocratic medicine

3.1. Humours: Blood, Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Phlegm

3.2. Canon of Medicine was based off of Four Humours

3.3. theory holds that the human body is filled with four basic substances, called humors, which are in balance when a person is healthy. All diseases and disabilities supposedly resulted from an excess or deficit of one of these four humors.

4. Ibn-Sīnā

4.1. most famous works are The Book of Healing

4.2. writings on astronomy, alchemy, geography and geology, psychology, Islamic theology, logic, mathematics, physics, philosophy, medicine and poetry

4.3. Born in Islamic Golden Age