Womb Heat versus Sperm Heat: Hippocrates against Galen and Ibn Sīnā in Ibn al-Nafīs’s Commentaries

Ibn al-Nafīs composed lemmatic commentaries on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms and Ibn Sīnā’s entire Canon of Medicine. While he regularly challenges, critiques and refutes Ibn Sīnā’s positions in his Commentary on the Canon, Ibn al-Nafīs generally upholds the validity of each Hippocratic aphorism. This sugg...

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Main Author: Fancy, Nahyan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Oriens
Year: 2017, Volume: 45, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 150-175
Further subjects:B Canon of Medicine
B Commentary
B Hippocrates
B Ibn al-Nafīs
B Authority
B Ibn Sīnā
B Galen
B Hippocratic Aphorisms
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