{"id":5169,"date":"2014-03-25T02:20:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2014-03-25T14:20:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:20:58","slug":"ibn-butlans-tacuini-sanitatis-1531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2014\/03\/25\/ibn-butlans-tacuini-sanitatis-1531\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibn Butlan&#8217;s Tacuini Sanitatis (1531)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"The Maintenance of&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;\nThe Maintenance of Health by Ibn Butlan\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2011\/7\/25\/1311605087502\/The-Maintenance-of-The-Ma-008.jpg\" \/><em>Image via the guardian.com, credit Royal Society<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This images are from a 14th century translation of Arabic doctor Ibn Butlan, who died circa 1068. Butlan&#8217;s title roughly translates to &#8220;health report.&#8221; The report addresses the impact of nature, emotional states, daily life, and meteorological conditions on health. Butlan wrote that his book concerned &#8220;the six things that are necessary for every man in the daily preservation of his health.&#8221; These included:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;The treatment of air, which concerns the heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8220;The right use of foods and drinks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. &#8220;The correct use of movement and rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>4. &#8220;The problem of prohibiting excessive wakefulness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>5. &#8220;The correct use of elimination and retention of humors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>6. &#8220;The regulating of the person by moderating joy, anger, fear, and distress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/files.offi.fr\/evenement\/44705\/images\/600\/8f70ce62ee7c2f02c647522c85f29093.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"661\" \/><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration from the 15th century edition of Tacuinum Sanitatis by Ibn Butlan.\" src=\"http:\/\/spaghettiforever.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/illustration-from-the-15th-century-edition-of-tacuinum-sanitatis-a-latin-translation-of-the-arabic-work-taqwicc84m-al-sihha-by-ibn-butlan1.jpg?w=640\" width=\"612\" height=\"662\" \/>Wine. 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Butlan&#8217;s title roughly translates to &#8220;health report.&#8221; The report addresses the impact of nature, emotional states, daily life, and meteorological conditions on health. Butlan wrote that his book concerned &#8220;the six<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2014\/03\/25\/ibn-butlans-tacuini-sanitatis-1531\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Ibn Butlan&#8217;s Tacuini Sanitatis (1531)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,12,15,17],"tags":[137,139,136,135,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5176,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}