Introduction.
Avicenna begins The Canon with a definition of the science of medicine:
Medicine (tibb) is the science by which we learn the various states of the
human body in health and when not in health, and the means by which health is
likely to be lost, and when lost, is likely to be restored. In other words,
medicine is the art whereby health is conserved and the art whereby it is
restored after being lost. Avicenna
insists that the [
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