Table 1.

Some of Avicenna’s clinical experiments in the Canon of medicine.

Medical branch	Topic	References
Semiology	Percussion for differential diagnosis of intestinal obstruction and ascites	Avicenna [13]
	Pregnancy diagnosis through pulse examination	Avicenna [14]
Therapeutic strategy	Lifestyle medicine specially nutrition therapy	Avicenna [13]
	Calorie restriction	Nozad [22]; Safari [23]
Urology	Storage phase and voiding phase of bladder function	Madineh [24]
	Correct position and lubricant material for bladder catheterization	Madineh [24]
	More occurrence of bladder stone at early age	Changizi [25]
	Chemical lithotripsy of bladder stone	Avicenna [13]; Madineh [24]
Neurology	Differential diagnosis of central and peripheral facial palsy	Resende [27]
	Therapeutic effect of electric waves	Kelishadi [7]; Vakili [30]
	Medical and surgical treatment of spinal trauma	Ghaffari [31]
Obstetrics and Gynecology	Cervical lesions diagnosis	Avicenna [13]; Kadıoğlu [34]
	Cervical and vaginal mass surgery	Avicenna [13]
	Delivering hydrocephalic fetuses by surgery	Avicenna [13]; Khajavi Shojaei [35]