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-
Rayees
Birth: approximately 980 CE / 370 AH
Death: 1037 CE / 428 AH
Ethnicity: Persian
Region: Central Asia and Persia
Born: In Persia Bukhara Province
 The Man of the Hour
Avicenna (Greek A), 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
IbnSn 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 Discoveries
Medicine 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 oils
uniformitarianism 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
 Avicenna's Four Humours and Temperaments

Evidence Hot Cold Moist Dry

Morbid inflammations become fevers related to serious

lassitude loss of vigour
states febrile humour, rheumatism

Functional
deficient energy deficient digestive power difficult digestion
power

Subjective
bitter taste, excessive thirst,
sensati Lack of desire for fluids mucoid salivation, sleepiness insomnia, wakefulness
burning at cardia
ons

Physical diarrhea, swollen eyelids, rough

high pulse rate, lassitude flaccid joints rough skin, acquired habit
signs skin, acquired habit

Foods &
calefacients harmful, infrigidants harmful, dry regimen harmful,
medici moist articles harmful
infrigidants beneficial calefacients beneficial humectants beneficial
nes

Relation to
weathe worse in summer worse in winter bad in autumn
r
 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
 Death
He died in June 1037,
in his fifty-eighth year,
and was buried in
Hamedan, Iran
 Poetry
Originally written by Ibn Sn
,
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate
,
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
,
And many Knots unravel'd by the Road;
.
But not the Master-Knot of Human Fate.
When some of his opponents blame him for blasphemy, he says

The blasphemy of somebody like me is not easy and exorbitant

There isn't any stronger faith than my faith

If there is just one person like me in the world and that one is impious

So there are no Muslims in the whole world.