Download or read book Avicenna on the Causes of Illness written by Laleh Bakhtiar and published by Kazi Publications. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avicenna in his Law of Natural Healing (Canon of Medicine), Lecture 8, describes the causes of illness including unavoidable causes such as environmental changes, natural mutations, incidental mutations, sleep and wakefulness and the influence of psychological or emotional factors as well as many other considerations. It also contains O. Cameron Gruner's extensive endnotes.