Avicenna's Prescriptions Published by BAU Publications

'Hakim-Tıb', or in other words'the Master and Sovereign of Physicians': this is how Avicenna, the Scholar of Sciences, is known, and exactly a thousand years ago he wrote the"Minor Canon of Medicine"(Al-Qanun al-Saghir fi al-Tibb), which has now been translated into Turkish byBahçeşehir University Publications.

Prepared for publication by Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Medicine faculty member and History and Ethics of Medicine specialistProf. Dr. Kadircan Keskinbora, the "Minor Canon of Medicine" contains Avicenna's treatises on diseases and treatment methods.

As far as is known, the number of works written by Avicenna, the Scholar of Sciences, during his lifetime exceeds 200. Originally written in Arabic, the "Minor Canon of Medicine"
is a summary of "Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb" (The Canon of Medicine), the five-volume medical encyclopedia Avicenna wrote in 1013. Avicenna is known to have written this summary both as a handbook for his students and so that it could be read more widely.

Consisting of 10 treatises and 110 pages and translated into Turkish by Bahçeşehir University, the "Minor Canon of Medicine" features prescriptions from Avicenna's pen for many diseases, from headaches to asthma and from sexually transmitted diseases to kidney stones.