On the Science of the Pulse

The book is skillfully organized into nine chapters. The first three provide a general view of the functions of the human body as prologue to the main subject, being the study of the pulse. The following three chapters deal with the pulse. Chapters 7 and 8 summarize ideas about the pulse from The Canon of Medicine. The final chapter closes the book with complementary remarks on the relevant parts in The Canon of Medicine.^[2]

Unlike his Arabic works, Avicenna intended this book for general readership, thus composing it in the vernacular.^[3]