Avicenna on Treating Wounds and Ulcers

Author: Laleh Bakhtiar
Publisher: Kazi
Year: 2013
Pages: 102
Printed: USA
ISBN: 978-1567448429
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: New
Weight: 144 gr.
Description from the publisher: 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)