Issues of respiratory pathology in the writings of Abu Ali Ibn Sino

Abstract

Abu Ali Ibn Sina (Avicenna) was the great scientist of the medieval East, whose writings have provided an active influence on development of the Eastern and European science and culture over several centuries. His medical opinion was based on a philosophical approach. In his main medical work "The Canon of Medicine", Ibn Sina described the chest structure, signs and treatment of respiratory diseases. He paid special attention to inflammation and pulmonary edema, purulent lung diseases, asthma, pleuritis and pulmonary tuberculosis. His diagnostic and therapeutic approaches described long ago has been still actual and could be applied in the current medicine. Abu Ali Ibn Sina laid the basis for the current pneu

Keywords

philosophy, "The Canon of Medicine", lung diseases, tuberculosis

About the Author

A. M. Ubaydullaev

Tashkent Institute of Postgraduate Education of Physicians, Healthcare Ministry of Uzbekistan Republic: 51, Parkentskaya ul., Tashkent, 100007, Uzbekistan Republic
Russian Federation

MD, Professor, Academician of the Science Academy of Uzbekistan Republic, Head of Department of Pulmonology and Clinical Allergology, Tashkent Institute of Postgraduate Education of Physicians, Healthcare Ministry of Uzbekistan Republic; tel.: (99 898) 809

References

1. Physicians-truents Born in the Year of the Dragon: Avicenna. Meditsinskaya gazeta. 2000; 1: 3 (in Russian).

2. Ibn Sino Abu 'Ali. The Canon of Medicine (in 10 volumes). Tashkent: Izdatel'stvo meditsinskoy literatury im. Abu Ali ibn Sino; 1995 (in Russian).

3. Ubaydullaev A. Role of the heritage of Avicenna in the development of sciences. In: VII International Scientific-practical Conference «Avicenna’ Readings». Bukhara; 2013. 91–92.

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Ubaydullaev A.M. Issues of respiratory pathology in the writings of Abu Ali Ibn Sino. PULMONOLOGIYA. 2015;25(2):229-231. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.18093/0869-0189-2015-25-2-229-231

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