The liver
object · 3 works · 4 mentions · 9 anchored passages
the liver · الكبد · al-kabid
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The liver, rejected as the soul but made, with the kidneys, the proper organ of the appetitive power, its channels' width affecting appetite as the stomach's does.
others held it to be the principal organs — I mean the brain, the heart, the liver and the two testicles;
This power belongs properly to the liver and the kidneys.
my hand, my liver, my heart, my body;
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The organ identified as the maʿdan, the mine or source, of the natural spirit, from which that spirit arises and spreads through the body carrying the natural faculties.
its mine is the liver, out of which it arises and then diffuses through the rest of the body, and it carries the natural faculties, whose acts are seven:
Aphorisms
The organ discussed across several disease and prognosis contexts
Fever supervening on painful affections of the liver removes the pain.
When the liver is filled with water and bursts into the epiploon, in this case the belly is filled with water and the patient dies.
When abscess of the liver is treated by the cautery or incision, if the pus which is discharged be pure and white, the patients recover, (for in this case it is situated in the coats of the liver;