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Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health. - Avicenna
" "Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
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About Avicenna
Avicenna (Persian: ابن سینا )(c. 980 in Balkh, Khorasan – 1037 in Hamedan), also known as Ibn Sīnā and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek Aβιτζιανός), was an Iranian Muslim polymath and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, Hafiz, logician, mathematician, poet, psychologist, physician, physicist, scientist, Sheikh, soldier, statesman and theologian.
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Native Name:
ابن سینا
Alternative Names:
Pūr-i Sīnā
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Aboû Alî al-Hosain ibn Abdallâh ibn Sînâ,
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Abitianus
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Ibn Sīnā
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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health. And because health and sickness and their causes are sometimes manifest, and sometimes hidden and not to be comprehended except by the study of symptoms, we must also study the symptoms of health and disease. Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. Of these causes there are four kinds: material, efficient, formal, and final.
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