ABSTRACT
Al-Harith and Aisha take Salim to a doctor. Salim is suffering from a chest complaint, and the doctor explain how this can be diagnosed according to the humoural system of medicine. Salim extolls the virtues of tibb al-nabawi (medicine of the Prophet), but is overruled. They discuss an illustrated Arabic copy of the pharmacological manual of the first-century CE scholar, Pedanius Dioscorides, and the doctor prescribes a treatment involving the use of balsam.
