ABSTRACT
The Canon of Medicine is Avicenna's chief medical work, whilst his minor treatises deal with separate diseases and their treatment. The medical curriculum in Vienna and Frankfurt on the Oder, in the sixteenth century, was largely based on the Canon of Avicenna and the Ad Almansorem of Rhazes. Greek medicine reached the Islamic world before philosophy. The Paul of Aegina's pupils continued the translation of medical books with just as much interest and care as they devoted to the philosophical works. Hunain was the most accomplished and prolific among the translators of philosophical and medical treatises. There are a good many minor treatises attributed to Avicenna, not all of which are authentic. One of these, the authenticity of which has been reasonably established, is entitled the Book of Politics. Besides translations and extracts, Arabic medical literature had included manuals that often took the form of pandects.
