He made the rules for experimenting and he was the first to conduct the modern scientific method. Ibn Sina started writing this work in 1012, exactly thousand years ago, and finished it in 1024. No medical book was studied to this amount in more then 600 years. The Canon was the main textbook at the medical schools at Louvain and Montpellier till 1657. The Canon was translated into Latin and had 15 Latin editions. Yet, the Canon was more systematic and logical than other medical scriptures of that time, containing references of books of previous physicians, enriched and modified with Ibn Sina›s own reflections. This work is very similar to the works of Avicenna›s predecessors Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi and Ali Ibn Abbas Al-Majusi, who presented the doctrine of Hippocrates, modified by Aristotle and Galen. It was written in five books: Book I-General principles, Book II-Materia medica Book III-Diseases of the individual organs Book IV-General diseases Book V-Formula for remedies. “Al-Qanun fit-Tibb”-, The Canon of Medicine”, is a recapitulation of the medicine of that time.
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