Memory of the World
Maṣāliḥ al-Insān al-Mutaʿalliqat bi al-Adyānwa al-Abdān, The human being interests linked to the religions and the body
The Maṣāliḥ alInsān alMutaʿalliqat bi alAdyānwa alAbdān The human being interests linked to the religions and the body is a book written by Abdullah Dan Fodio 1766 1829 and divided into two parts The first parts deals with the rights granted by muslim law to the human being from conception to death the choice of the mother during the union for marriage baptism circumcision and preschool education marriage etc In the second devoted to medicine the author states that it derives from two main sources which are the revelation the Quran and the Hadiths and the experimentation In the latter it refers to the influence of environmental factors on health His vision of medicine is based on the theory of humours whih considers that the body is composed of four basic elementscolumn air fire water and earth with four qualities namely hot or cold dry or wet The disease is caused by the imbalance between these elements At the end of this chapter it also refers to the ethics of medical practice such as the confidentiality of patients the treatment of patients with kindness and hospitality not practice medicine for profit but only for a genuine concern to help abandoned etc
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