Tongue Diseases in Al-Qanoon book of Ibn-Sina DR.ABDULLNASER KAADAN DR.ABDULLFATAH HANOON
TRANSLATED BY: DR .SALMA ALMAHDI,D.D.S Summary: T he tongue is con si d e red as completely in most of what IBN-SINA have wrote. Introduction: The old Arabic medical books are not divided in chapters specified for studying the tongue diseases ;for example, in the third chapter of (ALHAWI) book for ARAZI ,we find a section about the taste sensation (i) (ii) ;as he explains very briefly in the 49 th chapter in his book (iii); but ABULLHASSAN ALTABARI the author of (THE HIPPOCRATIC TREATMENTS) ,as he specified ten sections concerned about the tongue diseases such as (gagging reflexes of the tongue (iv) ranula of the tongue (v), (vi) in ALQANUNN book of IBN-SINA has been considered one of the most famous (vii), in addition to some other phrases related to the anatomy researches in the first chapter of the book (viii) IBN-SINA organized:- Anatomy of the tongue muscles: upper tongue muscle that is described very precisely by him. So as he mentions the tongue has nine muscles, although what is known that the tongue consist in addition to the upper tongue muscle ,eight another pairs from muscles instead of four ,so the total number of muscles are seventeen muscles. (ix) Neuroanatomy of the tongue: similar to the modern anatomy description ,telling the branch that innervates the tongue sensation to transmit the taste sensation | |
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