Coping with sickness: perspectives on health care, past and present

Versionen der Griechischen Landwirtschaft', Der Islam, 1914, 5: 174-9. 2 Ibn Sina warned the practitioner that an ill person's diet must be taken into consideration, since immoderate consumption of one kind of food may influence the diagnosis. For example, a reddish urine could be due to the unbalanced ration of the red beet "which is quite common among our people" rather than disease. As we see the diet of this wealthy(?) person, who was at least able to afford medical treatment, was much poorer than the list of foods in Kanz al-Fawa'id.