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Abstract Ibn Sina wrote more than 270 books, some of a few pages, others extending through several volumes which are concerning philosophy, religion, medicine, natural sciences, and other scientific areas. All books that written by Ibn Sina are in Arabic but one which in Persian language. Arabic was accepted as the scientific language at that age and writing in Arabic was a scientific tradition. Ibn Sina composed his major philosophical treatise, Kitab al-shifa (Book of Healing), a comprehensive account of learning that ranges from logic and mathematics to metaphysics, and the best known major medical book, Canon of Medicine, el-Kânûn fit-Tıbb in 5 volumes. He wrote another short book about medicine and diseases as if a summary of his Great Canon, Kânûn-u Sagîr (Small Canon). One copy of this book is at Bayezid State Library, Istanbul, section of hand-written books and recorded in Catalogue of Veliyuddin Efendi nr.2529. This book was translated in Turkish by a committee under the head of mine and published in 2013. Ibn Sina systematized this book as he did in the main Great Canon. At the beginning of every section he gave a short information and cut the section into subsections. Kanûn-u Sagir consists of ten separate sections. First of all, the being of the human, moulding the body, and the parts of the medical science is told. The pulse is described in details. The basic knowledges related to the organs, the urine, the power of the food and drinks, keeping the health, training the children, management of the pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, from the head to the feet the basic diseases of the regions of the body are summarized.

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