Talk:The Canon of Medicine

message: Is the Persian word qanun actually a cognate of our word canon? 131.183.73.174 23:35 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
:Arabic, actually. It means "law". And I believe it's not the cognate, but the root/origin.
:Really odd that the full Arabic name of the work is no listed at all. I am guessing it was Al Qanoon Al Tibb—iFaqeer | Talk to me! 08:54, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC)
Where are these books please? m.
It seems that instead of Galen, a picture of Ibn Sina/Avicenna should be pictured first, as he is the compiler. Shouldn't there be a Ibn Sina/Avicenna picture first?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.7.25.145 (talk) 05:18, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is this work still in print? The article makes no mention. -- 01:51, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Print avalibility 

message: Along with biographies, academic journals, and hospitals, works of chiefly historical importance are usually rated "Low" by the medicine project.  This doesn't mean that they weren't important at the time, just that improving an article on this subject is a low priority for the project when compared to (for example) articles on current diseases.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:22, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: While I agree with your assessment, I noticed that Hippocrates was of high-importance, whereas Galen does not have any Wikiproject Medicine template at all. I don't see how Galen and Avicenna are any less important, so I'm curious as to why this is? Does it have something to do with Hippocrates being a featured article? Regards, Jagged 85 (talk) 18:50, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: This article says that Gerard of Cremona translated The Canon into Latin but the article about him clearly states that he has been mistakenly credited and mentions another Gerard Cremonensis as the translator. Does anybody have more insight? Lathrop1885 (talk) 18:22, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation

message: Even skimming this article, one notices a tendency toward Avicenna-veneration (also evident in the main Avicenna article).  Although no-one is denying the man's achievements, for he had many, this article should be about the document itself, and *not* how wonderful Avicenna was for coming up with this or that. Example:
 - Ibn Sina contributed inventively...
 - ...he used to pioneer the idea of...
 - Avicenna was the first to describe the...
 - Avicenna's contribution to the...
Again, not that any of these are unremarkable by themselves, but that they all occur within the span of 3-4 sentences.  Indeed, for most of the article, almost every single paragraph begins with "Avicenna ....." - and this is NOT an article on Avicenna, it is an article on a single document. It ends up reading like fanboy work, which is unfortunate. I've added the coatrack tag and the "too long" tag. Glacialfury (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 02:24, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Avicenna Worship

message: This is a type of Database generated by India Govt to protect country ancient knowledge  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.212.91.131 (talk) 11:08, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taditional Knowledge Digital Libarary 

message: and verification is needed--222.67.208.20 (talk) 04:33, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volume size in Chinese version is different to what is written here.....  

message: Well its better than what we have here AVICENNA x. Medicine and Biology  J8079s (talk) 22:09, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  neutral source ?  

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message: The construction encyclopedia of Islamic medicine "encyclopedia"  is an WP:Easter egg "Islamic medicine" is a redirect to the same page Medicine in the medieval Islamic world. Medicine in the medieval Islamic world ⋅needs to be linked in the lede. The page has other problems mostly technical. Substantial changes should use talk.J8079s (talk) 04:24, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: why the lede needs to change

message: I have selected Canon of Medicine for editing because it was such an important medical text and the wikipedia article has very little concerning its actual content.  This book was the textbook in medicine for hundreds of years and is even in use in smaller capacity today.  I think this text deserves a closer inspection, and I intend on adding significant detail to the Wikipedia article.
I have found an English translation of the source material.  Because of having access to this source, mistakes have been made very obvious.  For example, many of the headings and chapters are misnamed or completely out of order.
I intend on laying out as much of the book as possible and giving a brief overview of what is in it.  It is also my intention to find additional photos and other third party sources.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paullittle1979 (talk • contribs) 11:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Canon's massive overhaul

message: Presentist wording has been a major issue in the past in articles relating to science in Medieval Islam. A lot of that content was removed with the Jagged_85 cleanup a few years ago. This article still has some content which reads to me as grafting modern terminology onto a thousand year old text, specifically:
*Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology as a section heading
*The statement that "The Canon of Medicine deals with evidence-based medicine, experimental medicine,[51] clinical trials, randomized controlled trials,[52][53] efficacy tests,[54][55] risk factor analysis, and the idea of a syndrome in the diagnosis of specific diseases.[56]" from the Book 2 (materia medica) section.
Because presentist wording is sometimes also found in the sources, I'm not sure what the best course of action is here.Dialectric (talk) 11:55, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presentist wording 

message: This is really well fleshed out so far. I have no suggestions on how to improve this more. I can't wait to see how User:Paullittle1979 improves books 3-5. Theboywiththednatattoo (talk) 03:03, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvements & Expanding

message: In Volume III,  the chapter beginning on p. 298 is titled, 
Chapter on treatment of headaches caused by external wind which penetrated into the head	
	 	
The first two sections of the chapter, in order are
- on treatment of headache caused by external bad vapors which inflicted the head	  298
	 
- On treatment of headache caused by perfume odors	298
	 
http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/saab/avicenna/book-three.html
:That's fine but not terribly helpful; if you wish the information to go into the article in some form please either suggest an edit or make a WP:BOLD edit yourself. Thanks --Merlinme (talk) 12:02, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Canon of Medicine makes one of the earliest references to headaches caused by perfume odors 

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