Medicine
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medicine · physician · the art of medicine · al-ṭibb · medical handbooks · physician's prescriptions · الطب · صناعة الطب · ṣināʻat al-ṭibb
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Nicomachean Ethics
The medical art, used as an analogy for how a practical discipline requires theoretical knowledge of its subject.
Now if this is so, clearly it behoves the statesman to have some acquaintance with psychology, just as the physician who is to heal the eye or the other parts of the body must know their anatomy.
for these come under no science or professional tradition, but the agents themselves have to consider what is suited to the circumstances on each occasion, just as is the case with the art of medicine or of navigation.
for punishment is a sort of medicine, and the nature of medicine to work by means of opposites.
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The medical art, the career designed for the author and pursued through a series of memorised handbooks, ultimately renounced in favour of the revealed sciences.
Then he occupied me with the study of jurisprudence for a short while, since it was his intention to teach me a great deal of medicine, because of the dying down and the obscurity that had befallen the jurists, and because he saw the greatness of the need of the living for physicians.
and made dear to me the roots of the revealed law and its branches, and made hateful to me the chapters of natural science and its superfluities;
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Medicine as a science, cited by name as the authority for the doctrine of the crisis on which the argument from illness depends.
That it does not fall ill at the body's illness is known (3) from the crisis that arises between nature and disease, as is settled in the art of medicine.
De Rerum Natura
The art/practice of medicine, personified as fearfully mute in the face of the plague's inexorable progress.
Would Medicine mumble low, the while she saw
So many a time men roll their eyeballs round,
Republic
The doctrine that medicine should serve civic usefulness rather than merely prolong life at any cost.
but they thought that the life of a man constitutionally sickly and intemperate was of no use to himself or others, and that the art of medicine should not be for such nor should they be given treatment even if they were richer than Midas.
Then, shall we not say that it was because Asclepius knew this—that for those who were by nature and course of life sound of body but had some localized disease, that for such, I say, and for this habit he revealed the art of medicine, and, driving out their disease by drugs and surgery, prescribed for them their customary regimen in order not to interfere with their civic duties, but that, when b …
And to require medicine, said I, not merely for wounds or the incidence of some seasonal maladies, but, because of sloth and such a regimen as we described, to fill one’s body up with winds and humors like a marsh and compel the ingenious sons of Aesculapius to invent for diseases such names as fluxes and flatulences—don’t you think that disgraceful?