Health and sickness
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
bodily conditions · health · health and sickness · sickness · the medicine of bodies · الصحة والمرض · طب الأبدان
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The pair of states that fixes the proper subject matter of medicine, invoked to explain why the physicians said nothing about a spirit peculiar to man or about the soul as such.
Animals share in these spirits, and the physicians did not affirm a further spirit for man, because their aim was to set out that to which health and sickness attach;
As for the soul (nafs), they did not mention it explicitly in medicine, since in medicine they mentioned only the elements, the temperaments (amzijah), the organs, the spirits, the faculties and the acts.
Memorabilia
Bodily states used to show that conventional goods and evils depend on outcomes.
Next the various causes of these two conditions — meat, drink, habits — are good or evil according as they promote health or sickness.
But when can health possibly be the cause of evil, or sickness of good?
Then health and sickness too must be good when their effect is good, and evil when it is evil.