Avicenna: On Treating Wounds and Ulcers

Description

Avicenna prescribes drugs for treating ulcers, abscesses, fractures. The list of just some of the properties of healing or harmful drugs for wounds and ulcers appears on the front cover: Creating dirty wounds; Filling wounds; Preventing putrefaction of the organs; Producing: flesh; scars (cicatrizing); Removing: afterbirth; excessive flesh; Softening of layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue (slough softening); Treating: acne; burns; creeping ulcers; deformities of the bones; dirty ulcers; eczema; excess bile producing spreading skin disease; itchy eruptions of the skin (prurigo); Jacobi ulcers; malignant ulcers; narrow passage or duct formed by disease or injury (fistula); pulmonary ulcers; pus forming from spreading skin disease caused by a very small species of mite (scabies pustulosa); small ulceration on a mucous membrane (aphtha); spreading skin disease caused by a very small species of mite (scabies); stomach ulcers; unorganized network of woven bone formed about the ends of a broken bone (callus)