ABSTRACT
Before starting our discussion of the contents of Bk. 6, it should
be noted that this book consists of twenty chapters which, after a
short introduction to the subject, deal with sexual diseases
occurring to men ( chs. 1-8), diseases affecting women (cbs. 9-
18), sciatica (ch. 19) and gout (ch. 20). Ibn al-Jazzar's major
source is Galen. Like all Arabic physicians, he adopted Galen's
humoral theory as the basis of his aetiology for several diseases
(cbs. 5-7, 9, 10, 12, 19, 20) and his therapeutical rule contraria
contrariis curantur as the basis for the treatment of these diseases.
Moreover, in some cases, as specified in the discussion of the
contents of the chapters themselves, Ibn al-Jazzar's symptology,
