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What kinds of treatments were described in the fifth book of The Canon of Medicine?
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Avicenna
The title page of the 1556 edition of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb). This edition (sometimes called the 1556 Basel edition) was translated by medieval scholar Gerard of Cremona.
In the fifth book of The Canon of Medicine, Avicenna presents a comprehensive compendium of "Compound Drugs". These treatments include various medicinal preparations such as theriacs, mithridates, electuaries, and cathartics.1
This book, along with Book II, offers an extensive collection of approximately 760 simple and compound drugs that elaborate upon the humoral pathology established by the Greek physician Galen of Pergamum.1