We cause 
injury by interfering with na ture's right function and we 
cause retention of what had to be expelled and ill health 
develops. Often one develops loose stools because of the weakening of the retentive pow er. If let alone, it would 
return to a normal state and to normal activity. But 
because this power has always been helped and 
strengthened whenever it became weak, it becomes a 
habit, and when it stops, it is necessary to move it from 
the outside. It has already been explained that it is best to 
leave this to nature. And so it should be in everything that 
holds no danger. ALFARABI ON HEALING , SAILING AND AGRICULTURE  
Abu Nassar Alfarabi mentioned that the arts of 
healing, sailing and agricultu re do not bring full results 
for the effort exerted. The physician, for example, does 
everything that he has to do in  the best possible way, with 
no error either on his part or on the part of the patient; 
nevertheless he does not atta in the desired result of 
restoring health. And the reason is that what affects us is 
not medicine alone, but medici ne together with nature, 
and nature is not always su ccessful in removing all the 
causes that have been mentioned in this chapter. The tiller 
of the soil also does everything that is required, yet has no 
success in sowing. And equall y, the sailor guides his boat 
the best he can and builds it in  the best structure and sails 
it in the proper place and ye t he suffers shipwreck. And the cause of this is that the results are due to two factors, 
one of which may do everything necessary while the 
other fails in its activity. When you observe what we have said in the previous 
chapter, you will know that occasionally a disease is 
light, but the disposition to it is strong. If you try to 
remove the disease and do everything for the patient, 
while the physician or the patient fails in medication, 
nature's function will be interfered with. And herein lies 
most of the mistakes that are made in every place and 
every time. AL RAZI: THE PATIENT AND HIS DISEASE  
Al Razi said in one of hi s books: "When the disease is 
stronger than the patient, the physician will not be able to 
help him at all, and if the stre ngth of the patient is greater 
than the strength of the dis ease, he does not need a 
physician at all. But when both are equal, they need a 
physician who will support the patient's strength and help 
him against the disease. Said the author: From the 
statement of this perfect pr actitioner it is implied that 
avoiding a physician is often better than engaging one, if 
all the events of th e illness are taken into consideration. This rule applies only if the physician is wise and can help nature and should not err in his way and deviate 
from his right habit. SURPRISING MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS  
Many physicians treat their patients with criminal 
neglect; nevertheless the patie nts do not die but are saved. And I have seen those who have prescribed asparagus, a 
strong purgative, for one who did not need even a mild 
one, causing the loss of much blood from below. And 
they persisted in it many days bringing about tense 
tenesmus and diarrhea—yet the patient got well again. And I have also seen one who suffered of indigestion and 
was treated unknowingly by phlebotomy and he became 
helpless from pain in his heart and loss of strength, 
prolonging and worsening his di sease, yet he was cured. But the physician should not ta ke it for granted that a 
physician's error causes little in jury and say: As this error 
in great measure did not cause death, it will surely cause 
no harm if the physician errs a little in the amount of food 
or drink. But this is not so a nd the causes that come from 
inside are the same as the cau ses that come from outside. You can see with your own eyes men whose arms were 
amputated up to the shoulder and their legs above their 
hips, or their eyes were removed or they were beaten and smitten severely many times in battle, penetrating the 
insides of their bodies, yet th ey did not die but survived 
by the will of God. You can also  see one piercing his skin 
with a thin needle or thorn that reaches one of his nerves 
causing a spasm and he dies . And the error of the 
physicians is equal in both di rections, for sometimes they 
commit a grave error and the patient is saved, and 
occasionally the error in trea tment is very mild and the 
patient thinks that it is of little consequence, yet it will 
prove the cause of his death. Let every intelligent man 
keep his eye on this. Most people think that the rules for eating regular food 
and drinking regular fluids and ablutions in cold water 
that one is accustomed to, may be changed to the reverse 
without involving any danger fo r the patient. But it is not 
so. Galen has already explai ned that one who is in a 
febrile state and is permitted to drink a lot of cold water 
will lose his fluids, bringing a bout the fire of fever and he 
will die. And some, on the contrary, find in drinking told 
water a cure, because it will so ften the stools, extinguish 
the fire of the fever and the patient will become well, 
while without the water he would die. In some febrile 
states, if we permit the patient to enter cold waters, he 
will get healthy and be saved, and in others it will bring 
death. Some febrile patients will cleanse their bodies and complete their cure if they will enter a bath, and in others 
it will increase their putrefac tion and fever and cause their 
death. So also with foods: in some patients their 
avoidance will cure and in others it will kill. And the 
actions of all these things and the circumstances under 
which we should do things or avoid them, have already 
been explained and their causes pointed out. MEDICINE A COMPLICATED SCIENCE  
To understand all this, as it is described in books, is 
very easy for any intelligen t person. But its practical 
application in time of ne ed, in a case involving a 
particular patient, is quite difficult for the wise man with 
a settled mind. But laymen who are ignorant of the 
foundations of this science, yet talk with certainty and 
without restraint, consider the problem an easy one and 
do not believe there is an illness that requires much 
observation. Al Razi said in one of his books: The 
ignorant say that medicine is  just a profession, that one 
can learn it through exercise. But how difficult it is for 
the good physician! Said the author: The item mentioned 
by Razi in this chapter is disc ussed at length in the works 
of Galen, who mentions, th at while Hippocrates talks 
about its difficulty, crafty pe ople consider this profession light and easy. And the reader of my statement should not 
imagine that this attitude is limited to medicine alone, 
because he will find the same in all the natural sciences, 
practical and theoretical. The more perfect a person 
becomes in one of the scie nces, the more cautious he 
grows, developing doubts, questions and problems that 
are only partially solved. And the more deficient one is in 
science, the easier it will be  for him to understand every 
difficulty, making the im probable probable and 
increasing the false claims which he represents as certain 
knowledge, and is eager to expl ain things that he does not 
understand himself. And let me return to what I began to 
say about the ease with whic h men of good intelligence 
and understanding comprehend the medical science and 
how difficult it is for them to  apply it. Galen has already 
stated as follows: It is easy  to say that it is proper to 
anoint old people with oil and rub it in, but to do it 
properly is one of the most difficult tasks. THE LEARNED ARE CAUTIOUS  
Said the author: You who observe well, please note, if 
anointing and rubbing is a difficult task, according to 
Galen, who discusses the speci fic case of drinking or 
abstaining from water, as we have mentioned, how difficult it is for the physician to use phlebotomy, 
purgatives like colocynth, and the juice of bitter 
cucumbers, hellebore, enema, castoreum, opopanax, 
cauterization and surgery with a scalpel! Said Ibn Zuhr: I 
never prescribed a purgative without taking it to heart 
several days before and after. INTERCOURSE  
The interest of most men in  intercourse is well known. Not one of them has in mind the care of his health or the 
prolongation of the human race,  but a craving after lust. They have no other intention but the satisfaction of their 
desire every time and at every opportune moment. And 
the informed already know th at intercourse hurts most 
people, except the few whose temperament shows that a 
small amount of it will not hurt them. But the difference 
among men is only in the am ount of harm; some will 
suffer in many ways and some only partially. Its harm to 
young men whose bodies are moist is little, and in the 
case of old people or conval escents or those of a dry 
constitution, the impairment of  health is extensive. And 
we have seen the convalescent who has had intercourse 
and died the same day, while some developed a paralysis 
from a heartache and after a few days had a recurrence of their fever and died. One may generalize and say that it is 
a bad thing because it kills th e sick and the convalescent 
and harms old people and those whose temperament is 
dry. And it is not proper for a man to have intercourse 
before the food is digested in the stomach, and not when 
he is hungry or thirsty or dr unk or has just finished his 
bath or exercised or had a phlebotomy performed a day 
before or a day after. Whoever wishes to remain healthy 
should chase the idea of inte rcourse from his mind as 
much as he can. ON WINE 
The benefits of wine are many if it is taken in the 
proper amount, as it keeps the body in a healthy condition 
and cures many illnesses. But the knowledge of its 
consumption is hidden from the masses. What they want 
is to get drunk and inebriety causes harm. The one who 
taught that intemperance is useful once a month is in 
error, because it causes only injury and abrogates the 
strength of the entire body, pa rticularly of the brain. The 
small amount that is useful must be taken after the food 
leaves the stomach. Young children should not come 
close to it because it hurts them and causes harm to their 
body and soul. Galen has already said: A child should abstain from it till the age of  twenty-one. The older a man 
is, the more beneficial the wine is for him. Old people 
need it most. THE BATH 
The bath is very necessary for the maintenance of 
health and for the cure of diseases. The physicians 
prescribed a bath for illness according to its form, the 
season and the age. As to its place in health, it has already 
been said that it is proper to  enter it once in ten days. The 
physicians reminded us that coming to the bath steadily 
every day putrefies the moistures. And this caution is 
correct for one who prolongs his stay in a bath until his 
perspiration flows. But if one  enters it without staying 
there long, but only washes himself and leaves, he is 
doing the proper thing even if he does it every day. It is 
particularly good for old peopl e and for those who have a 
bad constitution. It is not prope r to enter the bath before 
the food leaves the stomach and it is best to enter it after 
the stomach is empty but before one has hunger pains. One can go in if he wants to lose weight. The regulation 
for the bath and its procedure is as follows: One must 
sweat first and remove his sweat with a clean flaxen 
cloth. And as long as he sw eats he should wipe himself with a cloth until it becomes we t. Then he should cleanse 
the skin, massage the whole body and wash it with warm 
water, as warmth is good for the body. Then he should 
reduce the warmth, little by little , until finally he washes 
himself in lukewarm water, as if exposed to the sun, until 
finally it is cold without causing the body to shiver. He 
should then go into a bathtub where the water has a 
similar temperature. But whoever wants to reduce his 
body weight and lose the fat of  his flesh, should take hot 
water and enter it when it is as hot as he can stand it. The 
head must never be washed in either cold or luke-warm 
water, but only in water that is  so hot that he feels he is 
scalding his scalp. Cold wate r will strengthen the brain 
but will retain its superfluities . It will chil l it and all the 
nerves originating in the brain, and all the movements 
will become sluggish. It may cause hemiplegia, spasm or 
contracture of the hand, re quiring special care. Luke-
warm water will also cool the brain and soften it, making 
the movements and the sensations sluggish, but hot water 
hardens the substance of the brain, removes its 
superfluities, strengthens its nature and all its movements 
and sensations. And it is pr oper that a man should sleep 
after leaving his bath. SAID GALEN : SLEEP AFTER BATHING  
I cannot see a better way to boil what has been readied 
to boil, and to melt and heat what has been made ready to 
melt, than by sleeping after l eaving the bath. But sleeping 
in the bathhouse is very bad. It occasionally causes a 
heartache through the contradi ctory effects of sleep and 
bathroom heat: the heat of th e bath will draw the natural 
heat outward to the surface of the body, while sleep 
forces the heat deep inside the body. One must be very 
careful to abstain from dr inking cold water soon after 
leaving the bath. Galen said : There were men who drank 
cold water after leaving the bath and they chilled their 
kidneys and swelled up their bellies. Therefore it is 
advisable for a man to suffer thirst until his body cools 
off and loses the heat that the organs absorb from the bath 
and then he should drink. If his thirst does not permit him 
to wait, then let him drink water mixed with a syrup of 
citron rind, mastic or rose. Th e drinking of barley beer 
made with pomegranate seeds and sugar tart, myrrh, aloe 
wood and cloves, harms one after the bath. But if he waits 
after the bath until its warmth leaves the body he may 
take it, and it is helpful. I refer to this beer or to the 
previously mentioned syrup. DISCHARGE FROM THE NOSE 
There are many who take lig htly the liquid discharge 
from the nose as in their i gnorance they do not understand 
what usually develops from it if it goes down to the nose, 
or the hoarseness and coughi ng if it goes down to the 
trachea. It is best that one be  careful and watchful of such 
discharges in winter and summertime and put on his 
clothes while he is still in  the bathroom. And one should 
always protect his head from the strong cold that comes 
with a discharge and also from the strong heat that 
liquefies the congealed superf luities in the brain, that 
flow down afterward and cause the acute catarrhs. And all 
the discharges, the warm and the cold ones, usually run 
down into the cavities of the lungs and fill them up, 
because of the abundance of the moisture that flows down 
and because of the weakness of the receiving organ. They 
weaken the expelling force that would remove them by 
coughing and thus asphyxiate the man and he dies. Or 
they create a pause which is a shortness of breath in the 
lying position. Sometimes they flow down to the cavity of 
the stomach and cause intestinal irritation and this is a 
disease hard to cure. Occasi onally they flow down to the 
joints and produce arthritic pain. They may also go down 
to the internal organs and their cavities and produce an exudate in the organ, exudate of  the pleura, exudate of the 
lungs, exudate of the liver, exudate of the stomach or an 
exudate of other organs. This explains how careful we have 
to be with these discharges. STRENGTHENING THE BRAIN  
Caution with these discharges consists in being careful not 
to overheat or chill the head, as we have mentioned above, and 
avoiding to eat that which fills up the head, such as milk or 
gas-producing seeds like beans and lentils. One should avoid 
sleep right after his meal and especially if he eats at night. One 
should avoid taking warm and intoxicating drinks, because 
their consumption affects the mind swiftly. One should also 
strengthen the brain by smelling balsam and flowers according 
to their strength and the season. One of the favorite 
medications to strengthen the brain is to grind cloves until 
pulverized and place them across half of the forehead during 
the winter. One should also anoint his forehead during the 
winter with saw-leafed centaury oil, which will strengthen it. But when it is very warm one should dip his head in rose water 
and in nilufar and he should dust his head lightly with nutmeg 
powder which has been finely ground. FOOD DETERIORATION  
One must avoid, at any place and at any time, 
partaking of a food which has begun to decompose even slightly or become turbulent, malodorous, slightly warm [if it is naturally cold] or decayed, like fruits prepared in vinegar, small fish in brine, sour milk and like products. They are materials that produce fever and are like deadly poisons. And the good physicians warn against eating food that has remained overnight and meat a day after it has been boiled, because it has begun to deteriorate, even though it does not immediately appear so. And one should eat preferably sweet f oods because it is the sweets 
that nourish, according to Galen. One should also prefer drinking water that is sweet and cold. And if the sweet 
foods have deteriorated and become inedible, one should improve their taste by making them a little sour with materials that give a salty and astringent taste, like 
cooking in gooseberry juice or  acid or lemon or barley 
brine, sumac, quince or pomegranates. All these foods, when they are devoid of sweetness, also lack useful nutriments. First of all they  are not nauseating and some 
of them liquefy the mucosa in the stomach and increase the appetite, such as a salty  soup. Some fight putrefaction 
and cause dryness, like the foods to which vinegar and lemon have been added. Some of them will strengthen the 
stomach and close its openi ng, like sumac, pomegranate 
seeds, quince and gooseberry ju ice. One can rely on these 
foods as much as possible. AVOID SUDDEN CHANGES  
Habit and regularity are great  principles for keeping 
well and recovering from illness. It is not proper to 
change one's habits in health at once, neither in food, in 
drinks nor in intercourse, ba th or exercise. You should 
stick to your habits. And ev en if your habit is in 
contradiction to medical law,  you must not separate from 
it, but adjust to the law gr adually and for a prolonged 
time so that the change will not be felt. And a man must 
never change his habit all of a sudden. If he does he is 
bound to get sick. But the acute ly ill must not deviate 
from their habits, during the course of their disease they 
must not change their customs, even with the best of 
intentions. GOOD AND BAD GARMENTS  
It is well known that there are animals whose meat is 
constitutionally contradict ory to the nutrition of men, such as the meat of the wo lf and the fox. And some, like 
lamb, is very fit. So it is with the various furs for 
garments. The best for human garments are sheep's hides 
and the most dangerous are fox's hides. The intelligent 
physicians have mentioned it a nd this is the truth. About 
this [your] servant noticed that the garment which the 
Arabs call kirtas is very bad, but the garment called in 
Arabic alsanjab [squirrel] is praised by the physicians. Then remember that the fur of cats is dangerous to wear, 
or even to inhale their odor, therefore beware of them and 
their odor. However, it has b een advised to inhale the 
aroma of pigeons and to have them always in the house, 
because they insure one agai nst neurological afflictions 
like hemiplegia, spasms, cramps and tremor of the limbs. As long as he sees pigeons before him he will be 
protected from the above illn esses, provided he removes 
their droplets and does not al low the latter to collect, 
because they pollute the air and spoil it. Equally good 
against neurological diseases is the eating of pigeon meat. THE GAZELLE , RABBIT AND WILD ASS 
The best of game is the gazelle. The rabbit also has 
benefits that have been pr oven by experience. Eating its 
brain helps against head noise s, and its meat in general helps against head noises and neurological illnesses. The 
rabbit's hide warms much and helps in neurological 
diseases, particularly in old men. And the wild ass has the 
property of greatly strengthen ing the vision, as has been 
proven by experience. When one  eats its meat or holds 
the eyes over its meat when it is being boiled, he 
strengthens the vision and opens up the closed nerve 
cavities. This has been proven by experience. It will also 
strengthen the vision of an ass's eye and will be helpful to 
its weakness. This is all that [your] slave wanted now for the needs 
of my lord. Let God in His mercy give strength to his 
kingdom for ever and ever. Let Him lengthen the days of 
my lord, keep him steadily in good health, and make him 
successful in both worlds [this and the world to come]. As [God] has promised His servants and the gathering of 
His friends. He created hi m and honored him with His 
grace and goodness. To the bestower of souls let there be 
endless praise. He sustains life with grace. Oh, God, Thou 
art our strength! As is the wish of his servant Moses ben Maim-on, the 
Sephardi [Spaniard].
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        We cause 
injury by interfering with na ture's right function and we 
cause retention of what had to be expelled and ill health 
develops. Often one develops loose stools because of the weakening of the retentive pow er. If let alone, it would 
return to a normal state and to normal activity. But 
because this power has always been helped and 
strengthened whenever it became weak, it becomes a 
habit, and when it stops, it is necessary to move it from 
the outside. It has already been explained that it is best to 
leave this to nature. And so it should be in everything that 
holds no danger. ALFARABI ON HEALING, SAILING AND AGRICULTURE  
Abu Nassar Alfarabi mentioned that the arts of 
healing, sailing and agricultu re do not bring full results 
for the effort exerted. The physician, for example, does 
everything that he has to do in  the best possible way, with 
no error either on his part or on the part of the patient; 
nevertheless he does not atta in the desired result of 
restoring health. And the reason is that what affects us is 
not medicine alone, but medici ne together with nature, 
and nature is not always su ccessful in removing all the 
causes that have been mentioned in this chapter. The tiller 
of the soil also does everything that is required, yet has no 
success in sowing. And equall y, the sailor guides his boat 
the best he can and builds it in  the best structure and sails 
it in the proper place and ye t he suffers shipwreck. And the cause of this is that the results are due to two factors, 
one of which may do everything necessary while the 
other fails in its activity. When you observe what we have said in the previous 
chapter, you will know that occasionally a disease is 
light, but the disposition to it is strong. If you try to 
remove the disease and do everything for the patient, 
while the physician or the patient fails in medication, 
nature's function will be interfered with. And herein lies 
most of the mistakes that are made in every place and 
every time. AL RAZI: THE PATIENT AND HIS DISEASE  
Al Razi said in one of hi s books: "When the disease is 
stronger than the patient, the physician will not be able to 
help him at all, and if the stre ngth of the patient is greater 
than the strength of the dis ease, he does not need a 
physician at all. But when both are equal, they need a 
physician who will support the patient's strength and help 
him against the disease. Said the author: From the 
statement of this perfect pr actitioner it is implied that 
avoiding a physician is often better than engaging one, if 
all the events of th e illness are taken into consideration. This rule applies only if the physician is wise and can help nature and should not err in his way and deviate 
from his right habit. SURPRISING MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS  
Many physicians treat their patients with criminal 
neglect; nevertheless the patie nts do not die but are saved. And I have seen those who have prescribed asparagus, a 
strong purgative, for one who did not need even a mild 
one, causing the loss of much blood from below. And 
they persisted in it many days bringing about tense 
tenesmus and diarrhea—yet the patient got well again. And I have also seen one who suffered of indigestion and 
was treated unknowingly by phlebotomy and he became 
helpless from pain in his heart and loss of strength, 
prolonging and worsening his di sease, yet he was cured. But the physician should not ta ke it for granted that a 
physician's error causes little in jury and say: As this error 
in great measure did not cause death, it will surely cause 
no harm if the physician errs a little in the amount of food 
or drink. But this is not so a nd the causes that come from 
inside are the same as the cau ses that come from outside. You can see with your own eyes men whose arms were 
amputated up to the shoulder and their legs above their 
hips, or their eyes were removed or they were beaten and smitten severely many times in battle, penetrating the 
insides of their bodies, yet th ey did not die but survived 
by the will of God. You can also  see one piercing his skin 
with a thin needle or thorn that reaches one of his nerves 
causing a spasm and he dies. And the error of the 
physicians is equal in both di rections, for sometimes they 
commit a grave error and the patient is saved, and 
occasionally the error in trea tment is very mild and the 
patient thinks that it is of little consequence, yet it will 
prove the cause of his death. Let every intelligent man 
keep his eye on this. Most people think that the rules for eating regular food 
and drinking regular fluids and ablutions in cold water 
that one is accustomed to, may be changed to the reverse 
without involving any danger fo r the patient. But it is not 
so. Galen has already explai ned that one who is in a 
febrile state and is permitted to drink a lot of cold water 
will lose his fluids, bringing a bout the fire of fever and he 
will die. And some, on the contrary, find in drinking told 
water a cure, because it will so ften the stools, extinguish 
the fire of the fever and the patient will become well, 
while without the water he would die. In some febrile 
states, if we permit the patient to enter cold waters, he 
will get healthy and be saved, and in others it will bring 
death. Some febrile patients will cleanse their bodies and complete their cure if they will enter a bath, and in others 
it will increase their putrefac tion and fever and cause their 
death. So also with foods: in some patients their 
avoidance will cure and in others it will kill. And the 
actions of all these things and the circumstances under 
which we should do things or avoid them, have already 
been explained and their causes pointed out. MEDICINE A COMPLICATED SCIENCE  
To understand all this, as it is described in books, is 
very easy for any intelligen t person. But its practical 
application in time of ne ed, in a case involving a 
particular patient, is quite difficult for the wise man with 
a settled mind. But laymen who are ignorant of the 
foundations of this science, yet talk with certainty and 
without restraint, consider the problem an easy one and 
do not believe there is an illness that requires much 
observation. Al Razi said in one of his books: The 
ignorant say that medicine is  just a profession, that one 
can learn it through exercise. But how difficult it is for 
the good physician. Said the author: The item mentioned 
by Razi in this chapter is disc ussed at length in the works 
of Galen, who mentions, th at while Hippocrates talks 
about its difficulty, crafty pe ople consider this profession light and easy. And the reader of my statement should not 
imagine that this attitude is limited to medicine alone, 
because he will find the same in all the natural sciences, 
practical and theoretical. The more perfect a person 
becomes in one of the scie nces, the more cautious he 
grows, developing doubts, questions and problems that 
are only partially solved. And the more deficient one is in 
science, the easier it will be  for him to understand every 
difficulty, making the im probable probable and 
increasing the false claims which he represents as certain 
knowledge, and is eager to expl ain things that he does not 
understand himself. And let me return to what I began to 
say about the ease with whic h men of good intelligence 
and understanding comprehend the medical science and 
how difficult it is for them to  apply it. Galen has already 
stated as follows: It is easy  to say that it is proper to 
anoint old people with oil and rub it in, but to do it 
properly is one of the most difficult tasks. THE LEARNED ARE CAUTIOUS  
Said the author: You who observe well, please note, if 
anointing and rubbing is a difficult task, according to 
Galen, who discusses the speci fic case of drinking or 
abstaining from water, as we have mentioned, how difficult it is for the physician to use phlebotomy, 
purgatives like colocynth, and the juice of bitter 
cucumbers, hellebore, enema, castoreum, opopanax, 
cauterization and surgery with a scalpel. Said Ibn Zuhr: I 
never prescribed a purgative without taking it to heart 
several days before and after. INTERCOURSE  
The interest of most men in  intercourse is well known. Not one of them has in mind the care of his health or the 
prolongation of the human race,  but a craving after lust. They have no other intention but the satisfaction of their 
desire every time and at every opportune moment. And 
the informed already know th at intercourse hurts most 
people, except the few whose temperament shows that a 
small amount of it will not hurt them. But the difference 
among men is only in the am ount of harm; some will 
suffer in many ways and some only partially. Its harm to 
young men whose bodies are moist is little, and in the 
case of old people or conval escents or those of a dry 
constitution, the impairment of  health is extensive. And 
we have seen the convalescent who has had intercourse 
and died the same day, while some developed a paralysis 
from a heartache and after a few days had a recurrence of their fever and died. One may generalize and say that it is 
a bad thing because it kills th e sick and the convalescent 
and harms old people and those whose temperament is 
dry. And it is not proper for a man to have intercourse 
before the food is digested in the stomach, and not when 
he is hungry or thirsty or dr unk or has just finished his 
bath or exercised or had a phlebotomy performed a day 
before or a day after. Whoever wishes to remain healthy 
should chase the idea of inte rcourse from his mind as 
much as he can. ON WINE 
The benefits of wine are many if it is taken in the 
proper amount, as it keeps the body in a healthy condition 
and cures many illnesses. But the knowledge of its 
consumption is hidden from the masses. What they want 
is to get drunk and inebriety causes harm. The one who 
taught that intemperance is useful once a month is in 
error, because it causes only injury and abrogates the 
strength of the entire body, pa rticularly of the brain. The 
small amount that is useful must be taken after the food 
leaves the stomach. Young children should not come 
close to it because it hurts them and causes harm to their 
body and soul. Galen has already said: A child should abstain from it till the age of  twenty-one. The older a man 
is, the more beneficial the wine is for him. Old people 
need it most. THE BATH 
The bath is very necessary for the maintenance of 
health and for the cure of diseases. The physicians 
prescribed a bath for illness according to its form, the 
season and the age. As to its place in health, it has already 
been said that it is proper to  enter it once in ten days. The 
physicians reminded us that coming to the bath steadily 
every day putrefies the moistures. And this caution is 
correct for one who prolongs his stay in a bath until his 
perspiration flows. But if one  enters it without staying 
there long, but only washes himself and leaves, he is 
doing the proper thing even if he does it every day. It is 
particularly good for old peopl e and for those who have a 
bad constitution. It is not prope r to enter the bath before 
the food leaves the stomach and it is best to enter it after 
the stomach is empty but before one has hunger pains. One can go in if he wants to lose weight. The regulation 
for the bath and its procedure is as follows: One must 
sweat first and remove his sweat with a clean flaxen 
cloth. And as long as he sw eats he should wipe himself with a cloth until it becomes we t. Then he should cleanse 
the skin, massage the whole body and wash it with warm 
water, as warmth is good for the body. Then he should 
reduce the warmth, little by little, until finally he washes 
himself in lukewarm water, as if exposed to the sun, until 
finally it is cold without causing the body to shiver. He 
should then go into a bathtub where the water has a 
similar temperature. But whoever wants to reduce his 
body weight and lose the fat of  his flesh, should take hot 
water and enter it when it is as hot as he can stand it. The 
head must never be washed in either cold or luke-warm 
water, but only in water that is  so hot that he feels he is 
scalding his scalp. Cold wate r will strengthen the brain 
but will retain its superfluities. It will chil l it and all the 
nerves originating in the brain, and all the movements 
will become sluggish. It may cause hemiplegia, spasm or 
contracture of the hand, re quiring special care. Luke-
warm water will also cool the brain and soften it, making 
the movements and the sensations sluggish, but hot water 
hardens the substance of the brain, removes its 
superfluities, strengthens its nature and all its movements 
and sensations. And it is pr oper that a man should sleep 
after leaving his bath. SAID GALEN : SLEEP AFTER BATHING  
I cannot see a better way to boil what has been readied 
to boil, and to melt and heat what has been made ready to 
melt, than by sleeping after l eaving the bath. But sleeping 
in the bathhouse is very bad. It occasionally causes a 
heartache through the contradi ctory effects of sleep and 
bathroom heat: the heat of th e bath will draw the natural 
heat outward to the surface of the body, while sleep 
forces the heat deep inside the body. One must be very 
careful to abstain from dr inking cold water soon after 
leaving the bath. Galen said : There were men who drank 
cold water after leaving the bath and they chilled their 
kidneys and swelled up their bellies. Therefore it is 
advisable for a man to suffer thirst until his body cools 
off and loses the heat that the organs absorb from the bath 
and then he should drink. If his thirst does not permit him 
to wait, then let him drink water mixed with a syrup of 
citron rind, mastic or rose. Th e drinking of barley beer 
made with pomegranate seeds and sugar tart, myrrh, aloe 
wood and cloves, harms one after the bath. But if he waits 
after the bath until its warmth leaves the body he may 
take it, and it is helpful. I refer to this beer or to the 
previously mentioned syrup. DISCHARGE FROM THE NOSE 
There are many who take lig htly the liquid discharge 
from the nose as in their i gnorance they do not understand 
what usually develops from it if it goes down to the nose, 
or the hoarseness and coughi ng if it goes down to the 
trachea. It is best that one be  careful and watchful of such 
discharges in winter and summertime and put on his 
clothes while he is still in  the bathroom. And one should 
always protect his head from the strong cold that comes 
with a discharge and also from the strong heat that 
liquefies the congealed superf luities in the brain, that 
flow down afterward and cause the acute catarrhs. And all 
the discharges, the warm and the cold ones, usually run 
down into the cavities of the lungs and fill them up, 
because of the abundance of the moisture that flows down 
and because of the weakness of the receiving organ. They 
weaken the expelling force that would remove them by 
coughing and thus asphyxiate the man and he dies. Or 
they create a pause which is a shortness of breath in the 
lying position. Sometimes they flow down to the cavity of 
the stomach and cause intestinal irritation and this is a 
disease hard to cure. Occasi onally they flow down to the 
joints and produce arthritic pain. They may also go down 
to the internal organs and their cavities and produce an exudate in the organ, exudate of  the pleura, exudate of the 
lungs, exudate of the liver, exudate of the stomach or an 
exudate of other organs. This explains how careful we have 
to be with these discharges. STRENGTHENING THE BRAIN  
Caution with these discharges consists in being careful not 
to overheat or chill the head, as we have mentioned above, and 
avoiding to eat that which fills up the head, such as milk or 
gas-producing seeds like beans and lentils. One should avoid 
sleep right after his meal and especially if he eats at night. One 
should avoid taking warm and intoxicating drinks, because 
their consumption affects the mind swiftly. One should also 
strengthen the brain by smelling balsam and flowers according 
to their strength and the season. One of the favorite 
medications to strengthen the brain is to grind cloves until 
pulverized and place them across half of the forehead during 
the winter. One should also anoint his forehead during the 
winter with saw-leafed centaury oil, which will strengthen it. But when it is very warm one should dip his head in rose water 
and in nilufar and he should dust his head lightly with nutmeg 
powder which has been finely ground. FOOD DETERIORATION  
One must avoid, at any place and at any time, 
partaking of a food which has begun to decompose even slightly or become turbulent, malodorous, slightly warm [if it is naturally cold] or decayed, like fruits prepared in vinegar, small fish in brine, sour milk and like products. They are materials that produce fever and are like deadly poisons. And the good physicians warn against eating food that has remained overnight and meat a day after it has been boiled, because it has begun to deteriorate, even though it does not immediately appear so. And one should eat preferably sweet f oods because it is the sweets 
that nourish, according to Galen. One should also prefer drinking water that is sweet and cold. And if the sweet 
foods have deteriorated and become inedible, one should improve their taste by making them a little sour with materials that give a salty and astringent taste, like 
cooking in gooseberry juice or  acid or lemon or barley 
brine, sumac, quince or pomegranates. All these foods, when they are devoid of sweetness, also lack useful nutriments. First of all they  are not nauseating and some 
of them liquefy the mucosa in the stomach and increase the appetite, such as a salty  soup. Some fight putrefaction 
and cause dryness, like the foods to which vinegar and lemon have been added. Some of them will strengthen the 
stomach and close its openi ng, like sumac, pomegranate 
seeds, quince and gooseberry ju ice. One can rely on these 
foods as much as possible. AVOID SUDDEN CHANGES  
Habit and regularity are great  principles for keeping 
well and recovering from illness. It is not proper to 
change one's habits in health at once, neither in food, in 
drinks nor in intercourse, ba th or exercise. You should 
stick to your habits. And ev en if your habit is in 
contradiction to medical law,  you must not separate from 
it, but adjust to the law gr adually and for a prolonged 
time so that the change will not be felt. And a man must 
never change his habit all of a sudden. If he does he is 
bound to get sick. But the acute ly ill must not deviate 
from their habits, during the course of their disease they 
must not change their customs, even with the best of 
intentions. GOOD AND BAD GARMENTS  
It is well known that there are animals whose meat is 
constitutionally contradict ory to the nutrition of men, such as the meat of the wo lf and the fox. And some, like 
lamb, is very fit. So it is with the various furs for 
garments. The best for human garments are sheep's hides 
and the most dangerous are fox's hides. The intelligent 
physicians have mentioned it a nd this is the truth. About 
this [your] servant noticed that the garment which the 
Arabs call kirtas is very bad, but the garment called in 
Arabic alsanjab [squirrel] is praised by the physicians. Then remember that the fur of cats is dangerous to wear, 
or even to inhale their odor, therefore beware of them and 
their odor. However, it has b een advised to inhale the 
aroma of pigeons and to have them always in the house, 
because they insure one agai nst neurological afflictions 
like hemiplegia, spasms, cramps and tremor of the limbs. As long as he sees pigeons before him he will be 
protected from the above illn esses, provided he removes 
their droplets and does not al low the latter to collect, 
because they pollute the air and spoil it. Equally good 
against neurological diseases is the eating of pigeon meat. THE GAZELLE, RABBIT AND WILD ASS 
The best of game is the gazelle. The rabbit also has 
benefits that have been pr oven by experience. Eating its 
brain helps against head noise s, and its meat in general helps against head noises and neurological illnesses. The 
rabbit's hide warms much and helps in neurological 
diseases, particularly in old men. And the wild ass has the 
property of greatly strengthen ing the vision, as has been 
proven by experience. When one  eats its meat or holds 
the eyes over its meat when it is being boiled, he 
strengthens the vision and opens up the closed nerve 
cavities. This has been proven by experience. It will also 
strengthen the vision of an ass's eye and will be helpful to 
its weakness. This is all that [your] slave wanted now for the needs 
of my lord. Let God in His mercy give strength to his 
kingdom for ever and ever. Let Him lengthen the days of 
my lord, keep him steadily in good health, and make him 
successful in both worlds [this and the world to come]. As [God] has promised His servants and the gathering of 
His friends. He created hi m and honored him with His 
grace and goodness. To the bestower of souls let there be 
endless praise. He sustains life with grace. Oh, God, Thou 
art our strength. As is the wish of his servant Moses ben Maim-on, the 
Sephardi [Spaniard]. Section summary: 

1) Discuss injuries caused unintentional interference
    * Interference occurs between interventions. 2)
* Physicians' neglect leads

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 hygiene practice,

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### Injury Caused Unintentional Intervention



This passage highlights unintended consequences resulting from disrupting bodily functions. Intervening unnecessarily might lead to complications rather than curing ailments. Interfering with Nature’s Functionality typically triggers undesirable outcomes including damage. Prolonged exposure could potentially induce habitual behavior necessitating external intervention. "



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#### Retention Of Expulsion Matter.
Ill health develops.
What happens if you continue to use a medicine without letting nature take its course?
By not intervening and letting nature take its course.
According to Al Razi, what is the best way to treat a patient?
Sudden changes in food, drinks, or other habits.
What should one avoid in their diet to maintain good health?
One should avoid drinking cold water immediately after the bath and should not stay in the bath for too long.
What is the recommended method for taking a bath?
Eating the meat of a gazelle, rabbit, or wild ass, and applying certain oils to the forehead.
What is recommended for strengthening the brain and improving vision?